Mammalian cell lines expressing bovine adenovirus functions

ABSTRACT

The present invention provides novel recombinant mammalian cell lines expressing bovine adenovirus functions. In one embodiment, mammalian cell lines stably transformed with bovine adenovirus E1 sequences express bovine adenovirus E1 gene products and are useful for the replication of bovine adenovirus vectors having deletions and/or insertions in the E1 region. Such vector/cell line combinations are useful for synthesis of recombinant polypeptides, preparation of subunit vaccines, and in gene therapy.

REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS

This is a continuation of allowed U.S. patent application Ser. No.08/815,927; filed Mar. 13, 1997; now U.S. Pat. No. 6,086,890; which is acontinuation of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 08/164,292; filed Dec.9, 1993; now U.S. Pat. No. 5,820,868.

TECHNICAL FIELD

The present invention relates novel bovine adenovirus (BAV) expressionvector systems in which one or both of the early region 1 (E1) and theearly region 3 (E3) gene deletions are replaced by a foreign gene andnovel recombinant mammalian cell lines stably transformed with BAV E1sequences, and therefore, expresses E1 gene products, to allow a bovineadenovirus with an E1 gene deletion replaced by a foreign gene toreplicate therein. These materials are used in production of recombinantBAV expressing heterologous (antigenic) polypeptides or fragments forthe purpose of live recombinant virus or subunit vaccines or for othertherapies.

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION

The adenoviruses cause enteric or respiratory infection in humans aswell as in domestic and laboratory animals.

The bovine adenoviruses (BAVs) comprise at least nine serotypes dividedinto two subgroups. These subgroups have been characterized based onenzyme-linked immunoassays (ELISA), serologic studies withimmunofluorescence assays, virus-neutralization tests, immunoelectronmicroscopy, by their host specificity and clinical syndromes. Subgroup 1viruses include BAV 1, 2, 3 and 9 and grow relatively well inestablished bovine cells compared to subgroup 2 which includes BAV 4, 5,6, 7 and 8.

BAV3 was first isolated in 1965 and is the best characterized of the BAVgenotypes and contains a genome of approximately 35 kb (Kurokawa et al(1978) J. Virol. 28:212-218). The locations of hexon (Hu et al (1984) J.Viol. 49:604-608) and proteinase (Cai et al., (1990) Nuc. Acids Res.,18:5568), genes in the BAV3 genome have been identified and sequenced.However, the location and sequences of other genes such as early region1 (E1) and 3 (E3) in the BAV genome have not been reported.

In the human adenovirus (HAd) genome there are two important regions: E1and E3 in which foreign genes can be inserted to generate recombinantadenoviruses (Berkner and Sharp (1984) Nuc. Acid Res., 12:1925-1941 andHaj-Ahmad and Graham (1986) J. Virol., 57:267-274). E1 proteins areessential for virus replication in tissue culture, however,conditional-helper adenovirus recombinants containing foreign DNA in theE1 region, can be generated in a cell line which constitutivelyexpresses E1 (Graham et al., (1977) J. Gen. Virol., 36:59-72). Incontrast, E3 gene products of HAd 2 and HAd 5 are not required for invitro or in vivo infectious virion production, but have an importantrole in host immune responses to virus infection (Andersson et al (1985)Cell 43:215-222; Burgert et al (1987) EMBO J. 6:2019-2026; Carlin et al(1989) Cell 57:135-144; Ginsberg et al (1989) PNAS, USA 86:3823-3827;Gooding et al (1988) Cell 53:341-346; Tollefson et al (1991) J. Virol.65:3095-3105; Wold and Gooding (1989) Mol. Biol. Med. 6:433-452 and Woldand Gooding (1991) Virology 184:1-8). The E3-19 kiloDalton (kDa)glycoprotein (gp19) of human adenovirus type 2 (HAd2) binds to the heavychain of a number of class 1 major histocompatibility complex. (MHC)antigens in the endoplasmic reticulum thus inhibiting their transport tothe plasma membrane (Andersson et al. (1985) Cell 43:215-222; Burgertand Kvist, (1985) Cell 41:987-997; Burgert and Kvist, (1987) EMBO J.6:2019-2026). The E3-14.7 kDa protein of HAd2 or HAd5 prevents lysis ofvirus-infected mouse cells by tumor necrosis factor (TNF) (Gooding etal. (1988) Cell 53:341-346). In addition, the E3-10.4 kDa and E3-14.5kDa proteins form a complex to induce endosomal-mediated internalizationand degradation of the epidermal growth factor receptor (EGF-R) invirus-infected cells (Carlin et al. Cell 57:135-144; Tollefson et al.(1991) J. Virol. 65:3095-3105). The helper-independent recombinantadenoviruses having foreign genes in the E3 region replicate and expressvery well in every permissive cell line (Chanda et al (1990) Virology175:535-547; Dewar et al (1989) J. Virol. 63:129-136; Johnson et al(1988) Virology 164:1-14; Lubeck et al (1989) PNAS, USA 86:6763-6767;McDermott et al (1989) Virology 169:244-247; Mittal et al (1993) VirusRes. 28:67-90; Morin et al (1987) PNAS, USA 84:4626-4630; Prevec et al(1990) J. Inf. Dis. 161:27-30; Prevec et al (1989) J. Gen. Virol.70:429-434; Schneider. et al (1989) J. Gen. Virol. 70:417-427 and Yuasaet al (1991) J. Gen. Virol. 72:1927-1934). Based on the above studiesand the suggestion that adenoviruses can package approximately 105% ofthe wild-type (wt) adenovirus genome (Bett et al (1993) J. Virol.67:5911-5921 and Ghosh-Choudhury et al (1987) EMBO. J. 6:1733-1739), aninsertion of up to 1.8 kb foreign DNA can be packaged into adenovirusparticles for use as an expression vector for foreign proteins withoutany compensating deletion.

It is assumed that an indigenous adenovirus vector would be bettersuited for use as a live. recombinant virus vaccine in different animalspecies compared to an adenovirus of human origin. Non-humanadenovirus-based expression vectors have not been reported so far. Iflike HAds E3, the E3 regions in other adenoviruses are not essential forvirus replication in cultured cells, adenovirus recombinants containingforeign gene inserts in the E3 region could be generated.

BAV3 is a common pathogen of cattle usually resulting in subclinicalinfection though occasionally associated with a more serious respiratorytract infection (Darbyshire et al., 1966 Res. Vet Sci 7:81-93; Mattsonet al., 1988 J. Vet Res 49:67-69). BAV3 can produce tumors when injectedinto hamsters (Darbyshire, 1966 Nature 211:102) and viral DNA canefficiently effect morphological transformation of mouse, hamster or ratcells in culture (Tsukamoto and Sugino, 1972 J. Virol. 9:465-473; Motoiet al., 1972 Gann 63:415-418; M. Hitt, personal communication). Crosshybridization was observed between BAV3 and human adenovirus type 2(HAd2) (Hu et al., 1984 J. Virol. 49:604-608) in most regions of thegenome including some regions near but not at the left end of thegenome.

The E1A gene products of the group C human adenoviruses have been veryextensively studied and shown to mediate transactivation of both viraland cellular genes (Berk et al., 1979 Cell 17:935-944; Jones and Shenk,1979 Cell 16:683-689; Nevins, 1981 Cell 26:213-220; Nevins, 1982 Cell29:913-919; reviewed in Berk, 1986 Ann. Res. Genet 20:45-79), to effecttransformation of cells in culture (reviewed in Graham, F. L. (1984)“Transformation by and oncogenicity of human adenoviruses. In: TheAdenoviruses.” H. S. Ginsberg, Editor. Plenum Press, New York; Brantonet al., 1985 Biochim. Biophys. Acta 780:67-94) and induce cell DNAsynthesis and mitosis (Zerler et al., 1987 Mol. Cell Biol. 7:821-929;Bellet et al., 1989 J. Virol. 63:303-310; Howe et al., 1990 PNAS, USA87:5883-5887; Howe and Bayley, 1992 Virology 186:15-24). The E1Atranscription unit comprises two coding sequences separated by an intronregion which is deleted from all processed E1A transcripts. In the twolargest mRNA species produced from the E1A transcription unit, the firstcoding regions is further subdivided into exon 1, a sequence found inboth the 12s and 13s mRNA species, and the unique region, which is foundonly in the 13s mRNA species. By comparisons between E1A proteins ofhuman and simian adenoviruses three regions of somewhat conservedprotein sequence (CR) have been defined (Kimelman et al., 1985 J. Virol.53:399-409). CR1 and CR2 are encoded in exon 1, while CR3 is encoded inthe unique sequence and a small portion of exon 2. Binding sites for anumber of cellular proteins including the retinoblastoma protein Rb,cyclin A and an associated protein kinase p33^(cdk2), and other, as yetunassigned, proteins have been defined in exon 1 encoded regions of E1Aproteins (Yee and Branton, 1985 Virology 147:142-153; Harlow et al.,1986 Mol. Cell Biol. 6:1579-1589; Barbeau et al., 1992 Biochem. CellBiol. 70:1123-1134). Interaction of E1A with these cellular proteins hasbeen implicated as the mechanism through which E1A participates inimmortalization and oncogenic transformation (Egan et al, 1989 Oncogene4:383-388; Whyte et al., 1988 Nature 334:124-129; Whyte et al, 1988 J.Virol. 62:257-265). While E1A alone may transform or immortalize cellsin culture, the coexpression of both E1A and either the E1B-19k proteinor the E1B-55k protein separately or together is usually required forhigh frequency transformation of rodent cells in culture (reviewed inGraham, 1984 supra; Branton et al., 1985 supra; McLorie et al., 1991 J.Gen Virol. 72:1467-1471).

Transactivation of other viral early genes in permissive infection ofhuman cells is principally mediated by the amino acid sequence encodedin the CR3 region of E1A (Lillie et al., 1986 Cell 46:1043-1051).Conserved cysteine residues in a CysX₂CysX₁₃CysX₂Cys sequence motif SEQ.ID NO: 30 in the unique region are associated with metal ion bindingactivity (Berg, 1986 supra) and are essential for transactivationactivity (Jelsma et al., 1988 Virology 163:494-502; Culp et al., 1988PNAS, USA 85:6450-6454). As well, the amino acids in CR3 which areimmediately amino (N)-terminal to the metal binding domain have beenshown to be important in transcription activation, while thoseimmediately carboxy (C)-terminal to the metal binding domain areimportant in forming associations with the promoter region (Lillie andGreen, 1989 Nature 338:39-44; see FIG. 3).

The application of genetic engineering has resulted in several attemptsto prepare adenovirus expression systems for obtaining vaccines.Examples of such research include the disclosures in U.S. Pat. No.4,510,245 on an adenovirus major late promoter for expression in a yeasthost; U.S. Pat. No. 4,920,209 on a live recombinant adenovirus type 7with a gene coding for hepatitis-B surface antigen located at a deletedearly region 3; European patent 389 286 on a non-defective humanadenovirus 5 recombinant expression system in human cells for HCMV majorenvelope glycoprotein; WO 91/11525 on live non-pathogenic immunogenicviable canine adenovirus in a cell expressing E1a proteins; Frenchpatent 2 642 767 on vectors containing a leader and/or promoter from theE3 of adenovirus 2.

The selection of a suitable virus to act as a vector for foreign geneexpression, and the identification of a suitable non-essential region asa site for insertion of the gene pose a challenge. In particular, theinsertion site must be non-essential for the viable replication of thevirus and its effective operation in tissue culture and also in vivo.Moreover, the insertion site must be capable of accepting new geneticmaterial, whilst ensuring that the virus continues to replicate. Anessential region of a virus genome can also be utilized for foreign geneinsertion if the recombinant virus is grown in a cell line whichcomplements the function of that particular essential region in trans.

The present inventors have now identified suitable regions in the BAVgenome and have succeeded in inserting foreign genes to generate BAVrecombinants.

DISCLOSURE OF THE INVENTION

The present invention relates to novel bovine adenovirus expressionvector systems in which part or all of one or both of the E1 and E3 generegions are deleted and to recombinant mammalian cell lines of bovineorigin transformed with the BAV E1 sequences, and thus, constitutivelyexpress the E1 gene products to allow bovine adenovirus, having adeletion of part or all of the E1 gene region replaced by a heterologousnucleotide sequence encoding a foreign gene or fragment thereof, toreplicate therein and use of these materials in production ofheterologous (antigenic) polypeptides or fragments thereof.

The invention also related to a method of preparing a live recombinantvirus or subunit vaccines for producing antibodies or cell mediatedimmunity to an infectious organism in a mammal, such as bovine, whichcomprises inserting into the bovine adenovirus genome the gene orfragment coding for the antigen which corresponds to said antibodies orinduces said cell mediated immunity, together with or without aneffective promoter therefore, to produce BAV recombinants.

Generally, the foreign gene construct is cloned into a nucleotidesequence which represents only a part of the entire viral genome havingone or more appropriate deletions. This chimeric DNA sequence is usuallypresent in a plasmid which allows successful cloning to produce manycopies of the sequence. The cloned foreign gene construct can then beincluded in the complete viral genome, for example, by in vivorecombination following a DNA-mediated cotransfection technique.Multiple copies of a coding sequence or more than one coding sequencescan be inserted so that the recombinant vector can express more than oneforeign protein. The foreign gene can have additions, deletions orsubstitutions to enhance expression and/or immunological effects of theexpressed protein.

The invention also includes an expression system comprising an bovineadenovirus expression vector wherein heterologous nucleotide sequenceswith or without any exogenous regulatory elements, replace the E1 generegion and/or part or all of the E3 gene region.

The invention also includes (A) a recombinant vector system comprisingthe entire BAV DNA and a plasmid or two plasmids capable of generating arecombinant virus by in vivo recombination following cotransfection of asuitable cell line comprising BAV DNA representing the entire wild-typeBAV genome and a plasmid comprising a bovine adenovirus left or rightend sequences containing the E1 or E3 gene regions, respectively, with aheterologous nucleotide sequence encoding a foreign gene or fragmentthereof substituted for part or all of the E1 or E3 gene regions; (B) alive recombinant bovine adenovirus vector (BAV) system selected from thegroup consisting of: (a) a system wherein part or all of the E1 generegion is replaced by a heterologous nucleotide sequence encoding aforeign gene or fragment thereof; (b) a system wherein a part or all ofthe E3 gene region is replaced by a heterologous nucleotide sequenceencoding a foreign gene or fragment thereof; and (c) a system whereinpart or all of the E1 gene region and part or all of the E3 gene regionare deleted and a heterologous nucleotide sequence encoding a foreigngene or fragment thereof is inserted into at least one of the deletions;(C) a recombinant bovine adenovirus (BAV) comprising a deletion of partor all of E1 gene region, a deletion of part or all of E3 gene region ordeletion of both, and inserted into at least one deletion a heterologousnucleotide sequence coding for an antigenic determinant of a diseasecausing organism; (D) a recombinant bovine adenovirus expression systemcomprising a deletion of part or all of E1, a deletion of part or all ofE3, or both deletions, and inserted into at least one deletion aheterologous nucleotide sequence coding for a foreign gene or fragmentthereof under control of an expression promoter: or (E) a recombinantbovine adenovirus (BAV) for producing an immune response in a mammalianhost comprising: (1) BAV recombinant containing a heterologousnucleotide sequence coding for an antigenic determinant needed to obtainthe desired immune response in association with or without (2) aneffective promoter to provide expression of said antigenic determinantin immunogenic quantities for use as a live recombinant virus orrecombinant protein or subunit vaccine; (F) a mutant bovine adenovirus(BAV) comprising a deletion of part or all of E1 and/or a deletion ofpart or all of E3.

Recombinant mammalian cell lines stably transformed with BAV E1 generegion sequences, said recombinant cell lines thereby capable ofallowing replication therein of a bovine adenovirus comprising adeletion of part or all of the E1 or E3 gene regions replaced by aheterologous or homologous nucleotide sequence encoding a foreign geneor fragment thereof. The invention also includes production, isolationand purification of polypeptides or fragments thereof, such as growthfactors, receptors and other cellular proteins from recombinant bovinecell lines expressing BAV E1 gene products.

The invention also includes a method for providing gene therapy to amammal in need thereof to control a gene deficiency which comprisesadministering to said mammal a live recombinant bovine adenoviruscontaining a foreign nucleotide sequence encoding a non-defective formof said gene under conditions wherein the recombinant virus vectorgenome is incorporated into said mammalian genome or is maintainedindependently and extrachromosomally to provide expression of therequired gene in a target organ or tissue.

Another aspect of the invention provides a virus vaccine compositionwhich comprises the recombinant virus or recombinant protein inassociation with or without a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier. Therecombinant virus vaccine can be formulated for administration by anoral dosage (e.g. as an enteric coated tablet), by injection orotherwise. More specifically, these include a vaccine for protecting amammalian host against infection comprising a live recombinantadenovirus or recombinant protein produced by the recombinant adenovirusof the invention wherein the foreign gene or fragment encodes an antigenand formulated with or without a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier.

The invention also includes methods of producing antibodies or cellmediated immunity in a mammal including (1) a method for eliciting animmune response in a mammalian host against an infection comprising:administering a vaccine comprising a live BAV recombinant of theinvention wherein the foreign gene or fragment encodes an antigen withor without a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier, and (2) a method foreliciting an immune response in a mammalian host against an infectioncomprising: administering a vaccine comprising a recombinant antigenprepared by culturing a BAV recombinant wherein the foreign gene orfragment encodes the desired antigen with or without a pharmaceuticallyacceptable carrier.

The following disclosure will render these and other embodiments of thepresent invention readily apparent to those of skill in the art. Whilethe disclosure often refers to bovine adenovirus type 3 (BAV3), itshould be understood that this is for the purpose of illustration andthat the same features apply to bovine adenovirus of the other type, 1,2, 4, 5, 6, 7 8, and 9 and the invention described and claimed herein isintended to cover all of these bovine adenovirus types.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

FIGS. 1A-1L. Sequence and major open reading frames of the left 11% ofthe BAV3 genome (SEQ ID NO: 1 through SEQ ID NO: 8). The regioncomprises the E1 and protein IX transcription region. The 195 nucleotideinverted terminal repeat sequence identified by Shinagawa et al., 1987Gene 55:85-93 is shown in italics. The amino acid sequence for thelargest E1A protein, two E1B proteins and protein IX are presented. Theprobable splice donor ([), splice acceptor (]) and intron sequence(underlined italics) within the E1A region are marked. A 35 base pairrepeat sequence between E1A and E1B is indicated in bold underline.Possible transcription promoter TATA sequences and possible poly Aaddition sequences AATAA are also indicated.

FIGS. 2A-2B. Regions of homology in the E1A proteins of BAV3 and humanadenovirus type 5 (HAd5). The amino acid residue of each serotype isindicated. A. Conserved region 3 (CR3) of HAd5 (SEQ ID NO: 9) subdividedinto three functional regions as defined by Lillie et al (1989) Nature338:39-44 and described in the Background of the Invention. The intronsequence of BAV3 E1A occurs within the serine amino acid codon atposition 204 (nucleotide positions 1216-1322 of SEQ ID NO: 1). B. Aportion of conserved region 2 (CR2) of Had5 (SEQ ID NO: 10), showing theresidues thought to be important in the binding of retinoblastomaprotein Rb (Dyson et al., 1990 J. Virol. 64:1353-1356), and thecomparable sequence from BAV3 (SEQ ID NO: 34).

FIGS. 3A-3B. Homology regions between the HAd5 and E1B 19k (176R)protein (SEQ ID NO: 11 and SEQ ID NO: 12) and the corresponding BAV3(157R) protein (amino acid positions 83-99 and 136-142 of SEQ ID NO: 4).The amino acid residue number for each of the viruses is indicated.

FIG. 4. The C-terminal 346R of HAd5 E1B 56k (496R) (SEQ ID NO: 13) andthe corresponding BAV3 protein (420R) (amino acids position 74-420 ofSEQ ID NO: 6). The HAd5 protein comparison begins at residue 150 and theBAV3 (in italics) at residue 74. The amino terminal regions of theseproteins which are not presented show no significant homology.

FIG. 5. Homology comparison of the amino acid sequence of HAd5 proteinIX (SEQ ID NO: 14) and the corresponding protein of BAV3 (in italics)(SEQ ID NO: 8).

FIG. 6. The genome of BAV3 showing the location of EcoRI, XbaI and BAMHIsites and the structure of the 5100 bp segment from 77 to 92 m.u. ORFsfor the upper strand which can encode 60 amino acids or more arerepresented by bars. Shaded portions indicate regions of similarity topVIII, 14.7K E3 and fibre proteins of HAd2 or −5. The first methioninefollowed by a stretch of amino acids of at least 50 is shown by an opentriangle. Termination codons for ORFs likely to code for viral proteinsare shown by closed triangles.

FIGS. 7A-7R. Nucleotide sequence of BAV3 between 77 and 92 m.u. (SEQ IDNO: 15 through SEQ ID NO: 26) showing ORFs that have the potential toencode polypeptides of at least 50 amino acids after the initiatingmethionine. The nucleotide sequence was analyzed using the programDISPCOD (PC/GENE). Potential N-glycosylation sites (N-X-T/S) andpolyadenylation signals are underlined and the first methionine of eachORF is shown in bold.

FIGS. 8(a), 8(b), 8(c)-1, and 8(c)-2, and 8(c)-3. Comparison between thepredicted amino acid sequences for the ORFs of BAV3 and known proteinsof HAd2 or −5 using the computer program PALIGN (PC/GENE), withcomparison matrix structural-genetic matrix; open gap cost 6; unit gapcost 2. Identical residues are indicated by a colon and similar residuesby a dot. (a) Comparison between the predicted amino acid sequenceencoded by the 3′ end of BAV3 ORF 1 (SEQ ID NO: 16) and the HAd2hexon-associated pVIII precursor (SEQ ID NO: 27). (b) Comparison betweenthe ORF 4 (amino acids positions 34-154 of SEQ ID NO: 22) and the HAd514.7K E3 protein (SEQ ID NO: 28). (c) Comparison between the predictedamino acid sequence encoded by BAV3 ORF 6 (amino acids positions 8-983of SEQ ID NO: 26) and the HAd2 fibre protein (SEQ ID NO: 29).

FIG. 9. Construction of BAV3 E3 transfer vector containing the fireflyluciferase gene. The 3.0 kb BamHI ‘D’ fragment of the BAV3 genome whichfalls between m.u. 77.8 and 86.4, contains almost the entire E3 region(Mittal et al (1992) J. Gen. Virol. 73:3295-3000). This 3.0 kb fragmentwas isolated by digesting BAV3 DNA with BamHI and cloned into pUC18 atthe BamHI site to obtain pSM14. Similarly, the 4.8 kb BamHI ‘C’ fragmentof BAV3 DNA which extends between m.u. 86.4 and 100 was isolated andinserted into pUC18 to produce pSM17. To delete a 696 bp XhoI-NcoIfragment, pSM14 was cleaved with XhoI and NcoI, the larger fragment waspurified and the ends were made blunt with Klenow fragment of DNApolymerase I and a NruI-SalI linker was inserted to generate pSM14de12.A 2.3 kb BamHI fragment containing BAV3 sequences, an E3 deletion andNruI and SalI cloning sites, was inserted into pSM17 at the BamHI siteto obtain pSM41, however, this step was not required for construction ofa BAV3 E3 transfer vector. A 1716 bp fragment containing the fireflyluciferase gene (de Wet et al (1987) Mol. Cell. Biol. 7:725-737) wasisolated by digesting pSVOA/L (provided by D. R. Helinski, University ofCalifornia at San Diego, Calif.) with BsmI and SspI as described (Mittalet al (1993) Virus Res. 28:67-90), and the ends were made blunt withKlenow. The luciferase gene was inserted into pSM41 at the SalI site byblunt end ligation. The resultant plasmid was named pSM41-Luc whichcontained the luciferase gene in the same orientation as the E3transcription unit. The plasmid pKN30 was digested with XbaI andinserted into pSM41-Luc (partially cleaved with XbaI) at a XbaI sitepresent within the luciferase gene to obtain pSM41-Luc-Kan. The plasmidpSM14 was digested with BamHI and a 3.0 kb fragment was isolated andinserted into pSM17 at the BamHI site to generate pSM43. The 18.5 kbXbaI ‘A’ fragment of the BAV3 genome which falls between m.u. 31.5 and84.3 was cloned into pUC18 at the XbaI site to result pSM21. A 18.5 kbXbaI fragment was purified from pSM21 after cleavage with XbaI andinserted into pSM43 at the XbaI site and the resultant plasmid was namedpSM51. A 7.7 kb BamHI fragment containing the luciferase gene andkan^(r) gene was isolated after digesting pSM41-Luc-Kan with BamHI andligated to pSM51, partially digested with BamHI, to isolatepSM51-Luc-Kan in the presence of ampicillin and kanamycin. Finally thekan^(r) gene was deleted from pSM51-Luc-Kan by partial cleavage withXbaI and religation to obtain pSM51-Luc.

FIG. 10. Generation of BAV3 recombinants containing the fireflyluciferase in the E3 region. The plasmid pSM51-Luc contains the BAV3genome between m.u. 77.8-84.3 and 31.5-100, a 696 bp deletion in E3 andthe luciferase gene in E3 in the E3 parallel orientation. The BAV3genome digested with PvuI and uncut pSM51-Luc were used forcotransfection of MDBK cells transformed with a plasmid containing BAV3E1 sequences to rescue the luciferase gene in E3 of the BAV3 genome byin vivo recombination. The resulting BAV3-luciferase recombinants(BAV3-Luc) isolated from two independent experiments were named BAV3-Luc(3.1) and BAV3-Luc (3.2). The BamHI restriction map of the BAV3-Lucgenome is shown. The position and orientation of the firefly luciferasegene is shown as a hatched arrow.

FIGS. 11A-11B. Southern blot analyses of restriction enzymes digestedDNA fragments of the wt BAV3 or recombinant genomes by using a 696 bpXhoI-NcoI fragment from pSM14 (FIG. 9) and a DNA fragment containing theluciferase gene as probes. 100 ng DNA isolated from the mock (lanes 1,2, 3), BAV3-Luc (3.1) (lanes 4, 5, 6), BAV3-Luc (3.2) (lanes 7, 8, 9) orwt BAV3 (lanes 10, 11 12)-infected MDBK cells were digested with BamHI(lanes 1, 4, 7, 10), EcoRI (lanes 2, 5, 8, 11) or XbaI (lanes 3, 6, 9,12) and analyzed by agarose gel electrophoresis. The DNA fragments fromthe gel were transferred onto a GeneScreenPlus™ membrane and hybridizedwith a 696 bp XhoI-NcoI fragment from pSM14 (FIG. 9) labeled with ³²pusing Pharmacia Oligolabeling Kit (panel A). Panel B blot representsduplicate samples as in panel A but was probed with a 1716 bp BsmI-SspIfragment containing the luciferase gene (FIG. 9). The sizes of bandsvisualized following hybridization are shown in kb on the right in panelA and on the left in panel B.

B: BamHI, E: EcoRI, Xb: XbaI, 3.1: BAV3-Luc (3.1), 3.2: BAV3-Luc.(3.2)and wt: wild-type BAV3.

FIG. 12. Single step growth curve for wt BAV3 and BAV3-Luc. Confluentmonolayers of MDBK cells in 25 mm multi-well culture plates wereinoculated with the wt BAV3, BAV3-Luc (3.1) or BAV3-Luc (3.2) at am.o.i. of 10 p.f.u. per cell. The virus was allowed to adsorb for 1 h at37° C., cell monolayers were washed 3 times with PBS⁺⁺ (0.137 M NaCl,2.7 mM KCl, 8 mM Na₂HPO₄, 1.5 mM KH₂PO₄, containing 0.01% CaCl₂.2H₂O &0.01% MgCl₂.6H₂O) and incubated at 37° C. in 1 ml maintenance mediumcontaining 2% horse serum. At various times post-infection, cells wereharvested along with the supernatant, frozen and thawed three times andtitrated on MDBK cells by plaque assay. Results are the means ofduplicate samples.

FIG. 13. Kinetics of luciferase expression in MDBK cells-infected withBAV3-Luc. Confluent MDBK cell monolayers in 25 mm multi-well cultureplates were infected with BAV3-Luc (3.1) or BAV3-Luc (3.2) at a m.o.i.of 50 p.f.u. per cell. At indicated time points post-infection,virus-infected cells were harvested and assayed in duplicate forluciferase activity.

FIGS. 14A-14B. Luciferase expression in the presence of1-β-D-arabinofluranosyl cytosine (AraC) in MDBK cells-infected withBAV3-Luc. Confluent MDBK cell monolayers in 25 mm multi-well cultureplates were infected with A) BAV3-Luc (3.1) or B) BAV3-Luc (3.2) at am.o.i. of 50 p.f.u. per cell and incubated in the absence or presence of50 μg AraC per ml of maintenance medium. At indicated time pointspost-infection, virus-infected cells were harvested and assayed induplicate for luciferase activity.

FIGS. 15A-15B. Transcription maps of the wt BAV3 and BAV3-Luc genomes inthe E3 region. The genome of wt. BAV3 between m.u. 77 and 82 is shownwhich represents the E3 region. The location of XhoI and NcoI siteswhich were used to make an E3 deletion are shown. (a) The three frames(F1, F2 and F3) representing the open reading frames (ORFs) in the upperstrand of the wt BAV3 genome in the E3 region are represented by bars.The shaded portions indicate regions of similarities to pVIII andE3-14.7 kDa proteins of HAd5. The positions of the initiation andtermination codons for ORFs likely to code for viral proteins are shownby open and closed triangles, respectively. (b) The predicted ORFs forthe upper strand in E3 of the BAV3-Luc genome are shown after a 696 bpXhoI-NcoI E3 deletion replaced by the luciferase gene. The ORFs forpVIII and E3-14.7 kDa proteins are intact. The transcription map of thewt BAV3 E3 was adapted from the DNA sequence submitted to the GenBankdatabase under accession number D16839.

FIG. 16. Western blot analysis of virus-infected MDBK cells using ananti-luciferase antibody. Confluent monolayers of MDBK cells weremock-infected (lane 1) or infected with the wt BAV3 (lane 2), BAV3-Luc(3.1) (lane 3) and BAV3-Luc (3.2) (lane 4) at a m.o.i. of 50 p.f.u. percell, harvested at 18 h post-infection, cell extracts prepared andanalyzed by SDS-PAGE and Western blotting using a rabbit anti-luciferaseantibody. Purified firefly luciferase was used as a positive control(lane 5). The lane 5 was excised to obtain a shorter exposure. Theprotein molecular weight markers in kDa are shown on the left. The arrowindicates the 62 kDa luciferase bands reacted with the anti-luciferaseantibody.

wt: wild-type BAV3, 3.1: BAV3-Luc (3.1) and 3.2: BAV3-Luc (3.2).

FIG. 17. Construction of pSM71-neo. A 8.4 kb SalI fragment of the BAV3genome which falls between m.u. 0 and 24 was isolated and inserted intopUC19 at the SalI-SmaI site to generate pSM71. The plasmid, pRSDneo(Fitzpatrick et al (1990) Virology 176:145-157) contains theneomycin-resistant (neo^(r) gene flanked with the simian virus 40 (SV40)regulatory sequences originally from the plasmid, pSV2neo (Southern etal (1982) J. Mol. Appl. Genet 1:327-341) after deleting a portion of theSV40 sequences upstream of the neo^(r) gene to remove several falseinitiation codons. A 2.6 kb fragment containing the neo^(r) gene underthe control of the SV40 regulatory sequences, was obtained from theplasmid, pRSDneo after digestion with BamHI and Bg1II, and cloned intopSM71 at the SalI site by blunt end ligation to obtain pSM71-neocontaining the neo^(r) gene in the E1 parallel orientation.

FIG. 18. Construction of pSM61-kan 1 and pSM61-kan2. A 11.9 kb Bg1IIfragment of the BAV3 genome which extends between m.u. 0 and 34 waspurified and introduced into pUC19 at the BamHI-HincII site to obtainpSM61. The plasmid, pKN30 contains the neo^(r) gene along with SV40promoter and polyadenylation sequences from the plasmid pSV2neo withoutany modification. The entire pKN30 plasmid was inserted into pSM61 atthe SalI site to generate pSM61-kan1 having the neo^(r) gene in the E1anti-parallel orientation and pSM61-kan2 when the neo^(r) gene is in theE1 parallel orientation.

FIG. 19. Construction of an E1 transfer plasmid containing thebeta-galactosidase gene.

The plasmid, pSM71 which contains the BAV3 genome between m.u. 0 and 24,was cleaved with ClaI and partially with AvrII to delete a 2.6 kbAvrII-ClaI fragment (between m.u. 1.3 and 8.7) which-falls within the E1region. A 0.5 kb fragment containing the SV40 promoter andpolyadenylation sequences was obtained from pFG144K5-SV by digestingwith XbaI and inserted into pSM71 to replace the 2.6 kb deletion togenerate pSM71-del1-SV. A 3.26 kb fragment containing the bacterialbeta-galactosidase gene was isolated from pDUC/Z (Liang et al (1993)Virology 195:42-50) after cleavage with NcoI and HindIII and cloned intopSM71-del1-SV at the BamHI site to put the beta-galactosidase gene underthe control of the SV40 regulatory sequences to obtain pSM71-Z.

MODES OF CARRYING OUT THE INVENTION

The practice of the present invention will employ, unless otherwiseindicated, conventional microbiology, immunology, virology, molecularbiology, and recombinant DNA techniques which are within the skill ofthe art. These techniques are fully explained in the literature. See,e.g., Maniatis et al., Molecular Cloning: A Laboratory Manual (1982);DNA Cloning: A Practical Approach, vols. I & II (D. Glover, ed.);Oligonucleotide Synthesis (N. Gait, ed. (1984)); Nucleic AcidHybridization (B. Hames & S. Higgins, eds. (1985)); Transcription andTranslation (B. Hames & S. Higgins, eds. (1984)); Animal Cell Culture(R. Freshney, ed. (1986)); Perbal, A Practical Guide to MolecularCloning (1984). Sambrook et al., Molecular Cloning: A Laboratory Manual(2nd Edition); vols. I, II & III (1989).

A. Definitions

In describing the present invention, the following terminology, asdefined below, will be used.

A “replicon” is any genetic element (e.g., plasmid, chromosome, virus)that functions as an autonomous unit of DNA replication in vivo; i.e.,is capable of replication under its own control.

A “vector” is a replicon, such as a plasmid, phage, cosmid or virus, towhich another DNA segment may be attached so as to bring about thereplication of the attached segment.

By “live virus” is meant, in contradistinction to “killed” virus, avirus which is capable of producing identical progeny in tissue cultureand inoculated animals.

A “helper-free virus vector” is a vector that does not require a secondvirus or a cell line to supply something defective in the vector.

A “double-stranded DNA molecule” refers to the polymeric form ofdeoxyribonucleotides (adenine, guanine, thymine, or cytosine) in itsnormal, double-stranded helix. This term refers only to the primary andsecondary structure of the molecule, and does not limit it to anyparticular tertiary forms. Thus, this term includes double-stranded DNAfound, inter alia, in linear DNA molecules (e.g., restriction fragmentsof DNA from viruses, plasmids, and chromosomes). In discussing thestructure of particular double-stranded DNA molecules, sequences may bedescribed herein according to the normal convention of giving only thesequence in the 5′ to 3′ direction along the nontranscribed strand ofDNA (i.e., the strand having the sequence homologous to the mRNA).

A DNA “coding sequence” is a DNA sequence which is transcribed andtranslated into a polypeptide in vivo when placed under the control ofappropriate regulatory sequences. The boundaries of the coding sequenceare determined by a start codon at the 5′ (amino) terminus and atranslation stop codon at the 3′ (carboxy) terminus. A coding sequencecan include, but is not limited to, procaryotic sequences, cDNA fromeucaryotic mRNA, genomic DNA sequences from eucaryotic (e.g., mammalian)DNA, viral DNA, and even synthetic DNA sequences. A polyadenylationsignal and transcription termination sequence will usually be located 3′to the coding sequence.

A “transcriptional promoter sequence” is a DNA regulatory region capableof binding RNA polymerase in a cell and initiating transcription of adownstream (3′ direction) coding sequence. For purposes of defining thepresent invention, the promoter sequence is bound at the 3′ terminus bythe translation start codon (ATG) of a coding sequence and extendsupstream (5′ direction) to include the minimum number of bases orelements necessary to initiate transcription at levels detectable abovebackground. Within the promoter sequence will be found a transcriptioninitiation site (conveniently defined by mapping with nuclease S1), aswell as protein binding domains (consensus sequences) responsible forthe binding of RNA polymerase. Eucaryotic promoters will often, but notalways, contain “TATA” boxes and “CAAT” boxes. Procaryotic promoterscontain Shine-Dalgarno sequences in addition to the −10 and −35consensus sequences.

DNA “control sequences” refer collectively to promoter sequences,ribosome binding sites, polyadenylation signals, transcriptiontermination sequences, upstream regulatory domains, enhancers, and thelike, which collectively provide for the transcription and translationof a coding sequence in a host cell.

A coding sequence or sequence encoding is “operably linked to” or “underthe control of” control sequences in a cell when RNA polymerase willbind the promoter sequence and transcribe the coding sequence into mRNA,which is then translated into the polypeptide encoded by the codingsequence.

A “host cell” is a cell which has been transformed, or is capable oftransformation, by an exogenous DNA sequence.

A cell has been “transformed” by exogenous DNA when such exogenous DNAhas been introduced inside the cell membrane. Exogenous DNA may or maynot be integrated (covalently linked) to chromosomal DNA making up thegenome of the cell. In procaryotes and yeasts, for example, theexogenous DNA may be maintained on an episomal element, such as aplasmid. A stably transformed cell is one in which the exogenous DNA hasbecome integrated into the chromosome so that it is inherited bydaughter cells through chromosome replication. For mammalian cells, thisstability is demonstrated by the ability of the cell to establish celllines or clones comprised of a population of daughter cell containingthe exogenous DNA.

A “clone” is a population of daughter cells. derived from a single cellor common ancestor. A “cell line” is a clone of a primary cell that iscapable of stable growth in vitro for many generations.

Two polypeptide sequences are “substantially homologous” when at-leastabout 80% (preferably at least about 90%, and most preferably at leastabout 95%) of the amino acids match over a defined length of themolecule.

Two DNA sequences are “substantially homologous” when they are identicalto or not differing in more that 40% of the nucleotides, more preferablyabout 20% of the nucleotides, and most preferably about 10% of thenucleotides.

DNA sequences that are substantially homologous can be identified in aSouthern hybridization experiment under, for example, stringentconditions, as defined for that particular system. Defining appropriatehybridization conditions is within the skill of the art. See. e.g.,Maniatis et al., supra; DNA Cloning, vols. I & II, supra; Nucleic AcidHybridization, supra.

A “heterologous” region of a DNA construct is an identifiable segment ofDNA within or attached to another DNA molecule that is not found inassociation with the other molecule in nature. Thus, when theheterologous region encodes a viral gene, the gene will usually beflanked by DNA that does not flank the viral gene in the genome of thesource virus or virus-infected cells. Another example of theheterologous coding sequence is a construct where the coding sequenceitself is not found in nature (e.g., synthetic sequences having codonsdifferent from the native gene). Allelic variation or naturallyoccurring mutational events do not give rise to a heterologous region ofDNA, as used herein.

“Bovine host” refers to cattle of any breed, adult or infant.

The term “protein” is used herein to designate a polypeptide orglycosylated polypeptide, respectively, unless otherwise noted. The term“polypeptide” is used in its broadest sense, i.e., any polymer of aminoacids (dipeptide or greater) linked through peptide bonds. Thus, theterm “polypeptide” includes proteins, oligopeptides, protein fragments,analogs, muteins, fusion proteins and the like.

“Fusion protein” is usually defined as the expression product of a genecomprising a first region encoding a leader sequence or a stabilizingpolypeptide, and a second region encoding a heterologous protein. Itinvolves a polypeptide comprising an antigenic protein fragment or afull length BAV protein sequence as well as (a) heterologoussequence(s), typically a leader sequence functional for secretion in arecombinant host for intracellularly expressed polypeptide, or anN-terminal sequence that protects the protein from host cell proteases,such as SOD. An antigenic protein fragment is usually about 5-7 aminoacids in length.

“Native” proteins or polypeptides refer to proteins or polypeptidesrecovered from BAV or BAV-infected cells. Thus, the term “native BAVpolypeptide” would include naturally occurring BAV proteins andfragments thereof. “Noh-native” polypeptides refer to polypeptides thathave been produced by recombinant DNA methods or by direct synthesis.“Recombinant” polypeptides refers to polypeptides produced byrecombinant DNA techniques; i.e., produced from cells transformed by anexogenous DNA construct encoding the desired polypeptide.

A “substantially pure” protein will be free of other proteins,preferably at least 10% homogeneous, more preferably 60% homogeneous,and most preferably 95% homogeneous.

An “antigen” refers to a molecule containing one or more epitopes thatwill stimulate a host's immune system to make a humoral and/or cellularantigen-specific response. The term is also used interchangeably with“immunogen.”

A “hapten” is a molecule containing one or more epitopes that does notstimulate a host's immune system to make a humoral or cellular responseunless linked to a carrier.

The term “epitope” refers to the site on an antigen or hapten to which aspecific antibody molecule binds or is recognized by T cells. The termis also used interchangeably with “antigenic determinant” or “antigenicdeterminant site.”

An “immunological response” to a composition or vaccine is thedevelopment in the host of a cellular and/or antibody-mediated immuneresponse to the composition or vaccine of interest. Usually, such aresponse consists of the subject producing antibodies, B cells, helper Tcells, suppressor T cells, and/or cytotoxic T cells directedspecifically to an antigen or antigens included in the composition orvaccine of interest.

The terms “immunogenic polypeptide” and “immunogenic amino acidsequence” refer to a polypeptide or amino acid sequence, respectively,which elicit antibodies that neutralize viral infectivity, and/ormediate antibody-complement or antibody dependent cell cytotoxicity toprovide protection of an immunized host. An “immunogenic polypeptide” asused herein, includes the full length (or near full length) sequence ofthe desired protein or an immunogenic fragment thereof.

By “immunogenic fragment” is meant a fragment of a polypeptide whichincludes one or more epitopes and thus elicits antibodies thatneutralize viral infectivity, and/or mediates antibody-complement orantibody dependent cell cytotoxicity to provide protection of animmunized host. Such fragments will usually be at least about 5 aminoacids in length, and preferably at least about 10 to 15 amino acids inlength. There is no critical upper limit to the length of the fragment,which could comprise nearly the full length of the protein sequence, oreven a fusion protein comprising fragments of two or more of theantigens. The term “treatment” as used herein refers to treatment of amammal, such as bovine or the like, either (i) the prevention ofinfection or reinfection (prophylaxis), or (ii) the reduction orelimination of symptoms of an infection. The vaccine comprises therecombinant BAV itself or recombinant antigen produced by recombinantBAV.

By “infectious” is meant having the capacity to deliver the viral genomeinto cells.

B. General Method

The present invention identifies and provides a means of deleting partor all of the nucleotide sequence of bovine adenovirus E1 and/or E3 generegions to provide sites into which heterologous or homologousnucleotide sequences encoding foreign genes or fragments thereof can beinserted to generate bovine adenovirus recombinants. By “deleting partof” the nucleotide sequence is meant using conventional geneticengineering techniques for deleting the nucleotide sequence of part ofthe E1 and/or E3 region.

Various foreign genes or coding sequences (prokaryotic, and eukaryotic)can be inserted in the bovine adenovirus nucleotide sequence, e.g.,DNA,in accordance with the present invention, particularly to provideprotection against a wide range of diseases and many such genes arealready known in the art. The problem heretofore having been to providea safe, convenient and effective vaccine vector for the genes or codingsequences.

It is also possible that only fragments of nucleotide sequences of genescan be used (where these are sufficient to generate a protective immuneresponse) rather than the complete sequence as found in the wild-typeorganism. Where available, synthetic genes or fragments thereof can alsobe used. However, the present invention can be used with a wide varietyof genes, fragment and the like, and is not limited to those set outabove.

In some cases the gene for a particular antigen can contain a largenumber of introns or can be from an RNA virus, in these cases acomplementary DNA copy (cDNA) can be used.

In order for successful expression of the gene to occur, it can beinserted into an expression vector together with a suitable promoterincluding enhancer elements and polyadenylation sequences. A number ofeucaryotic promoter and polyadenylation sequences which providesuccessful expression of foreign genes in mammalian cells and how toconstruct expression cassettes, are known in the art, for example inU.S. Pat. No. 5,151,267, the disclosures of which are incorporatedherein by reference. The promoter is selected to give optimal expressionof immunogenic protein which in turn satisfactorily leads to humoral,cell mediated and mucosal immune responses according to known criteria.

The foreign protein produced by expression in vivo in a recombinantvirus-infected cell may be itself immunogenic. More than one foreigngene can be inserted into the viral genome to obtain successfulproduction of more than one effective protein.

Thus with the recombinant virus of the present invention, it is possibleto provide protection against a wide variety of diseases affectingcattle. Any of the recombinant antigenic determinant or recombinant livevirus of the invention can be formulated and used in substantially thesame manner as described for the antigenic determinant vaccines or anlive vaccine vectors.

The antigens used in the present invention can be either native orrecombinant antigenic polypeptides or fragments. They can be partialsequences, full-length sequences, or even fusions (e.g., havingappropriate leader sequences for the recombinant host, or with anadditional antigen sequence for another pathogen). The preferredantigenic polypeptide to be expressed by the virus systems of thepresent invention contain full-length. (or near full-length) sequencesencoding antigens. Alternatively, shorter sequences that are antigenic(i.e., encode one or more epitopes) can be used. The shorter sequencecan encode a “neutralizing epitope,” which is defined as an epitopecapable of eliciting antibodies that neutralize virus infectivity in anin vitro assay. Preferably the peptide should encode a “protectiveepitope” that is capable of raising in the host an “protective immuneresponse;” i.e., an antibody-and/or a cell-mediated immune response thatprotects an immunized host from infection.

The antigens used in the present invention, particularly when comprisedof short oligopeptides, can be conjugated to a vaccine carrier. Vaccinecarriers are well known in the art: for example, bovine serum albumin(BSA), human serum albumin (HSA) and keyhole limpet hemocyanin (KLH). Apreferred carrier protein, rotavirus VP6, is disclosed in EPO Pub. No.0259149, the disclosure of which is incorporated by reference herein.

Genes for desired antigens or coding sequences thereof which can beinserted include those of organisms which cause disease in mammals,particularly bovine pathogens such as bovine rotavirus, bovinecoronavirus, bovine herpes virus type 1, bovine respiratory syncytialvirus, bovine parainfluenza virus type 3 (BPI-3), bovine diarrhea virus,Pasteurella haemolytica, Haemophilus somnus and the like. The vaccinesof the invention carrying foreign genes or fragments can also be orallyadministered in a suitable oral carrier, such as in an enteric-coateddosage form. Oral formulations include such normally-employed excipientsas, for example, pharmaceutical grades of mannitol, lactose, starch,magnesium stearate, sodium saccharin cellulose, magnesium carbonate, andthe like. Oral vaccine compositions may be taken in the form ofsolutions, suspensions, tablets, pills, capsules, sustained releaseformulations, or powders, containing from about 10% to about 95% of theactive ingredient, preferably about 25% to about 70%. An oral vaccinemay be preferable to raise mucosal immunity in combination with systemicimmunity, which plays an important role in protection against pathogensinfecting the gastrointestinal tract.

In addition, the vaccine be formulated into a suppository. Forsuppositories, the vaccine composition will include traditional bindersand carriers, such as polyalkaline glycols or triglycerides. Suchsuppositories may be formed from mixtures containing the activeingredient in the range of about 0.5% to about 10% (w/w), preferablyabout 1% to about 2%.

Protocols for administering to animals the vaccine composition(s) of thepresent invention are within the skill of the art in view of the presentdisclosure. Those skilled in the art will select a concentration of thevaccine composition in a dose effective to elicit an antibody and/orT-cell mediated immune response to the antigenic fragment. Within widelimits, the dosage is not believed to be critical. Typically, thevaccine composition is administered in a manner which will deliverbetween about 1 to about 1,000 micrograms of the subunit antigen in aconvenient volume of vehicle, e.g., about 1-10 cc. Preferably, thedosage in a single immunization will deliver from about 1 to about 500micrograms of subunit antigen, more preferably about 5-10 to about100-200 micrograms (e.g., 5-200 micrograms).

The timing of administration may also be important. For example, aprimary inoculation preferably may be followed by subsequent boosterinoculations if needed. It may also be preferred, although optional, toadminister a second, booster immunization to the animal several weeks toseveral months after the initial immunization. To insure sustained highlevels of protection against disease, it may be helpful to readministera booster immunization to the animals at regular intervals, for exampleonce every several years. Alternatively, an initial dose may beadministered orally followed by later inoculations, or vice versa.Preferred vaccination protocols can be established through routinevaccination protocol experiments.

The dosage for all routes of administration of in vivo recombinant virusvaccine depends on various factors including, the size of patient,nature of infection against which protection is needed, carrier and thelike and can readily be determined by those of skill in the art. By wayof non-limiting example, a dosage of between 10³ pfu and 10⁸ pfu and thelike can be used. As with in vitro subunit vaccines, additional dosagescan be given as determined by the clinical factors involved.

In one embodiment of the invention, a number of recombinant cell linesare produced according to the present invention by constructing anexpression cassette comprising the BAV E1 region and transforming hostcells therewith to provide cell lines or cultures expressing the E1proteins. These recombinant cell lines are capable of allowing arecombinant BAV, having an E1 gene region deletion replaced byheterologous nucleotide sequence encoding for a foreign gene orfragment, to replicate and express the desired foreign gene or fragmentthereof which is encoded within the recombinant BAV. These cell linesare also extremely useful in generating recombinant BAV, having an E3gene deletion replaced by heterologous nucleotide sequence encoding fora foreign gene or fragment, by in vivo recombination followingDNA-mediated cotransfection.

In one embodiment of the invention, the recombinant expression cassettecan be obtained by cleaving the wild-type BAV genome with an appropriaterestriction enzyme to produce a DNA fragment representing the left endor the right end of the genome comprising E1 or E3 gene regionsequences, respectively and inserting the left or right end fragmentinto a cloning vehicle, such as plasmid and thereafter inserting atleast one DNA sequence encoding a foreign protein, into E1 or E3deletion with or without the control of an exogenous promoter. Therecombinant expression cassette is contacted with the wild-type BAV DNAthrough homologous recombination or other conventional geneticengineering method within an E1 transformed cell line to obtain thedesired recombinant.

The invention also includes an expression system comprising an bovineadenovirus expression vector wherein a heterologous nucleotide, e.g.DNA, replaces part or all of the E3 region and/or part or all of the E1region. The expression-system can be used wherein the foreign nucleotidesequences, e.g. DNA, is with or without the control of any otherheterologous promoter.

The BAV E1 gene products of the adenovirus of the inventiontransactivate most of the cellular genes, and therefore, cell lineswhich constitutively express E1 proteins can express cellularpolypeptides at a higher level than normal cell lines. The recombinantmammalian, particularly bovine, cell lines of the invention can be usedto prepare and isolate polypeptides, including those such as (a)proteins associated with adenovirus E1A proteins: e.g. p300,retinoblastoma(Rb) protein, cyclins, kinases and the like; (b) proteinsassociated with adenovirus E1B protein: e.g. p53 and the like.; (c)growth factors, such as epidermal growth factor (EGF), transforminggrowth factor (TGF) and the like; (d) receptors-such as epidermal growthfactor receptor (EGF-R), fibroblast growth factor receptor (FGF-R),tumor necrosis factor receptor (TNF-R), insulin-like growth factorreceptor (IFG-R), major histocompatibility complex class I receptor andthe like; (e) proteins encoded by proto-oncogenes such as proteinkinases (tyrosine-specific protein kinases and protein kinases specificfor serine or threonine), p21 proteins (guanine nucleotide-bindingproteins with GTPase activity and the like; (f) other cellular proteinssuch as actins, collagens, fibronectins, integrins, phospholipids,proteoglycans, histones and the like, and (g) proteins involved inregulation of transcription such as TATA-box-binding protein (TBP),TBP-associated factors (TAFs). SP1 binding protein and the like.

The invention also includes a method for providing gene therapy to amammal in need thereof to control a gene deficiency which comprisesadministering to said mammala live recombinant bovine adenoviruscontaining a foreign nucleotide sequence encoding a non-defective formof said gene under conditions wherein the recombinant virus vectorgenome is incorporated into said mammalian genome or is maintainedindependently and extrachromosomally to provide expression of therequired gene in the target organ or tissue. These kinds of techniquesare recently being used by those of skill in the art to replace adefective gene or portion thereof. Examples of foreign genes nucleotidesequences or portions thereof that can be incorporated for use in aconventional gene therapy include, cystic fibrosis transmembraneconductance regulator gene, human minidystrophin gene,alpha1-antitrypsin gene and the like.

EXAMPLES

Described below are examples of the present invention. These examplesare provided only for illustrative purposes and are not intended tolimit the scope of the present invention in any way. In light of thepresent disclosure, numerous embodiments within the scope of the claimswill be apparent to those of ordinary skill in the art. The contents ofthe references cited in the specification are incorporated by referenceherein.

Cells and Viruses

Cell culture media and reagents were obtained from GIBCO/BRL Canada(Burlington, Ontario, Canada). Media were supplemented with 25 mM Hepesand 50 μg/ml gentamicin. MDBK cells or MDBK cells transformed with aplasmid containing BAV3 E1 sequences were grown in MEM supplemented with10% Fetal bovine serum. The wild-type BAV3 ((strain WBR-1) (Darbyshireet al, 1965 J. Comparative Pathology 75:327) was kindly provided by Dr.B. Darbyshire, University of Guelph, Guelph, Canada) and BAV3-luciferaserecombinants working stocks and virus titrations were done in MDBKcells.

Enzymes, Bacteria and Plasmids

Restriction endonucleases, polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and otherenzymes required for DNA manipulations were purchased from Pharmacia LKBBiotechnology (Canada) Ltd. (Dorval, Quebec, Canada),Boehringer-Mannheim, Inc. (Laval or Montreal, Quebec, Canada), NewEngland BioLabs (Beverly, Mass.), or GIBCO/BRL Canada (Burlington,Ontario, Canada) and used as per manufacturer's instructions.Restriction enzyme fragments of BAV3 DNA were inserted into pUC18 orpUC19 (Yanich-Penon et al (1985) Gene 33:103-109) following standardprocedures (Sambrook et al (1989) Molecular Cloning: A LaboratoryManual, 2nd ed. Cold Spring Harbour Laboratory, New York). E. colistrain DH5 (supE44 hsdR17 recA1 endA1 gyrA96 thi-1 relA1) wastransformed with recombinant plasmids by electroporation (Dower et al.(1988) Nuc. Acids Res., 16:6127-6145). Plasmid DNA was prepared usingthe alkaline lysis procedure (Bernboim and Doly (1978) Nuc. Acids Res.,7:1513-1523). The plasmid, pSVOA/L containing the entire cDNA encodingfirefly luciferase (de Wet et al (1987) Mol. Cell. Biol. 7:725-737), wasa gift from D. R. Helinski, University of California, San Diego, LaJolla, Calif.

Construction of Recombinant BAV3

MDBK cells transformed with a plasmid containing BAV3 E1 sequences werecotransfected with the wt BAV3 DNA digested with PvuI and the plasmid,pSM51-Luc (FIGS. 9 and 10) using the lipofection-mediated cotransfectionprotocol (GIBCO/BRL, Life Technologies, Inc., Grand Island, N.Y.). Thevirus plaques produced following cotransfection were isolated, plaquepurified and the presence of the luciferase gene in the BAV3 genome wasdetected by agarose gel electrophoresis of recombinant virus DNAdigested with appropriate restriction enzymes.

Southern Blot and Hybridization

Mock or virus-infected MDBK cells were harvested in lysis buffer (500μg/ml pronase in 0.01 M Tris, pH 7.4, 0.01 M EDTA, 0.5% SDS) and DNA wasextracted (Graham et al (1991) Manipulation of adenovirus vectors In:Methods and Molecular Biology, 7:Gene Transfer and Expression Techniques(Eds. Murray and Walker) Humana Press, Clifton, N.J. pp. 109-128). 100ng DNA was digested either with BamHI, EcoRI or XbaI and resolved on a1% agarose gel by electrophoresis. DNA bands from the agarose gel weretransferred to a GeneScreenPlus™ membrane (Du Pont Canada Inc. (NENProducts), Lachine, Quebec, Canada) by the capillary blot procedure(Southern, E. M. (1975) J. Mol. Biol. 98:503-517). Probes were labeledwith ³²P using an Oligolabeling Kit (Pharmacia LKB Biotechnology(Canada) Ltd., Dorval, Quebec, Canada) and the unincorporated label wasremoved by passing the labeled probe through a sephadex G-50 column(Sambrook et al (1989) supra). Probes were kept in a boiling water bathfor 2 min and used in hybridization experiments followingGeneScreenPlus™ hybridization protocol. The DNA bands which hybridizedwith the probe were visualized by autoradiography.

Luciferase Assays

The protocol was essentially the same as described (Mittal et al (1993)Virus Res. 28:67-90). Briefly, MDBK cell monolayers in 25 mm multi-welldishes (Corning Glass Works, Corning, N.Y.) were infected in duplicateeither with BAV3-Luc (3.1) or BAV3-Luc (3.2) at a m.o.i. of 50 p.f.u.per cell. At indicated time points post-infection, recombinantvirus-infected cell monolayers were washed once with PBS (0.137 M NaCl,2.7 mM KCl, 8 mM Na₂HPO₄, 1.5 mM KH₂PO₄) and harvested in 1 mlluciferase extraction buffer (100 mM potassium phosphate, pH 7.8, 1 mMdithiothreitol). The cell pellets were resuspended in 200 μl ofluciferase extraction buffer and lysed by three cycles of freezing andthawing. The supernatants were assayed for luciferase activity. For theluciferase assay, 20 μl of undiluted or serially diluted cell extractwas mixed with 350 μl of luciferase assay buffer (25 mM glycylglycine,pH 7.8, 15 mM MgCl₂, 5 MM ATP) in a 3.5 ml tube (Sarstedt Inc.,St-Laurent, Quebec, Canada). Up to 48 tubes can be kept in theluminometer rack and the equipment was programed to inject 100 μl ofluciferin solution (1 mM luciferin in 100 mM potassium phosphate buffer,pH 7.8) in the tube present in the luminometer chamber to start theenzyme reaction. The Luminometer (Packard Picolite Luminometer, PackardInstrument Canada, Ltd., Mississauga, Ontario, Canada) used in thepresent study produced 300 to 450 light units of background count in a10 sec reaction time. Known amounts of the purified firefly luciferasewere used in luciferase assays to calculate the amount of activeluciferase present in each sample.

Western Blotting

Mock or virus-infected MDBK cells were lysed in 1:2 diluted 2X loadingbuffer (80 mM Tris-HCl, pH 6.8, 0.67 M urea, 25% glycerol, 2.5% SDS, 1 Mmercaptoethanol, 0.001% bromophenol blue), boiled for 3 min and thencentrifuged to pellet cell debris. Proteins were separated bySDS-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (SDS-PAGE) on 0.1% SDS-10%polyacrylamide gels (Laemmli, et al (1970) Nature 227:680-685). Afterthe end of the run, polypeptide bands in the gel wereelectrophoretically transferred to a nitrocellulose membrane (Bio-RadLaboratories, Richmond, Calif.). The membrane was incubated at roomtemperature for 2 h with 1:4000 diluted rabbit anti-luciferase antibody(Mittal et al (1993) supra). The binding of anti-luciferase antibody tothe specific protein band/s on the membrane was detected with 1:5000diluted horseradish peroxidase conjugated-goat anti-rabbit IgG (Bio-RadLaboratories, Richmond, Calif.) and with an ECL Western blottingdetection system (Amersham Canada Ltd., Oakville, Ontario).

Example 1

Cloning of BAV3 E1 Region DNA for Sequencing

To complement the restriction site (Kurokawa et al, 1978 J. Virol.,28:212-218; Hu et al, 1984 J. Virol. 49:604-608) other restrictionenzyme sites in the BAV3 genome were defined. The 8.4 kilobase pair (kb)SalI B fragment which extends from the left end of the genome toapproximately 24% was cloned into the SmaI-SalI sites of pUC18essentially as described previously (Graham et al, 1989 EMBO Journal8:2077-2085). Beginning at the left end of the BAV3 genome, the relevantrestriction sites used for subsequent subcloning and their approximatepositions are: SacI (2%), EcoRI (3.5%), HindIII (5%), SacI (5.5%), SmaI(5.6%) and HindIII (11%). Through the use of appropriate restrictionenzymes, the original plasmid was collapsed to contain smaller insertswhich could be sequenced using the pUC universal primers. Some fragmentswere also subcloned in both pUC18 and pUC19 to allow confirmationalsequencing in both directions. These procedures, together with the useof twelve different oligonucleotide primers hybridizing with BAV3sequences, allowed to sequence the BAV3 genome from its left end to theHindIII site at 11%.

To ensure that some features of the sequence obtained were not unique tothe initial clone selected for sequencing, two more pUC19 clones wereprepared containing the SalI fragment from a completely independent DNApreparation. These clones were used to confirm the original sequence forthe region from approximately 3% to 5.5% of the BAV3 genome.

DNA sequencing reactions were based on the chain-termination method(Sanger et al. 1977 PNAS, USA 74:5463-5467) and manual sequencingfollowed the DNA sequencing protocol described in the Sequenase™ kitproduced by US Biochemical. [α-³⁵S]dATPs was obtained from AmershamCanada Ltd. All oligonucleotides used as primers were synthesized by theCentral Facility of the Molecular Biology and Biotechnology Institute(MOBIX) at McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario. The entire region (0to 11%) of the BAV3 genome was sequenced by at least two independentdeterminations for each position by automated sequencing on a 373A DNASequencer (Applied Biosystems) using Taq-Dye terminators. Over half ofthe region was further sequenced by manual procedures to confirmoverlaps and other regions of interest.

DNA sequence analysis and protein comparisons were carried out on aMICROGENIE program.

Example 2

Coding Sequences of the BAV3 E1 Region

BAV3 genomic DNA, from the left end of the genome to the HindIII site atapproximately 11%, was cloned into plasmids and sequenced by acombination of manual and automated sequencing. An examination of theresultant BAV3 E1 genomic sequence (FIG. 1) revealed a number ofinteresting features relevant both to transactivation and to otherfunctions associated with adenovirus E1 proteins. On the basis ofopen-reading frames (ORFs) it was possible to assign potential codingregions analogous to those defined in human Ad5 (HAd5). As shown in FIG.1, ORFs corresponding roughly to the first exon and unique region ofHAd5 E1A as well are ORFs corresponding to the 19k and 58k proteins ofE1B and the ORF corresponding to protein IX were all defined in thissequence. The open reading frame defining the probable E1A coding regionbegins at the ATG at nt 606 and continues to a probable splice donorsite at position 1215. The first consensus splice acceptor site afterthis is located after nt 1322 and defines an intron of 107 base pairswith an internal consensus splice branching site at position 1292. Theputative BAV3 E1A polypeptide encoded by a message corresponding tothese splice sites would have 211 amino acids and a unmodified molecularweight of 23,323. The major homology of the protein encoded by this ORFand HAd5 E1A is in the residues corresponding to CR3 (shown in FIG. 2).The homology of amino acid sequences on both sides of the putativeintron strengthens the assignment of probable splice donor and acceptorsites. The CR3 has been shown to be of prime importance in thetransactivation activity of HAd5 EIA gene products. As seen in FIG. 2Athe homology of this sequence in the BAV3 protein to the correspondingregion of the 289R E1A protein of HAd5 includes complete conservation ofthe CysX₂CysX₁₃CysX₂Cys sequence motif (SEQ ID NO: 30) which defines themetal binding site of this protein (Berg, 1986 Science 232:485-487) aswell as conservation of a number of amino acids within this region andwithin the promoter binding region as defined by Lillie and Green 1989Nature 338:39-44).

The only other region of significant homology between the BAV3 E1Aprotein and that of HAd5 was a stretch of amino acids known to beimportant in binding of the cellular Rb protein to the Had5 E1A protein(Dyson et al, 1990 J. Virol. 64:1353-1356). As shown in FIG. 2B, thissequence, which is located between amino acids 120 and 132 in the CR2region of HAd5 E1A, is found near the amino (N−) terminus of the BAV3protein between amino acids 26 and 37.

An open reading frame from the ATG at nt 1476 to the termination signalat 1947 defines a protein of 157 amino acids with two regions of majorhomology to the HAd5 E1B 19k protein. As shown in FIG. 3 both the BAV3and the HAd5 proteins have a centrally located hydrophobic amino acidsequence. The sequence in BAV3, with substitutions of valine for alanineand leucine for valine, should result in a somewhat more hydrophobicpocket than the corresponding HAd5 region. The other portion of HAd5 19kthat may be conserved in the BAV3 protein is the serine rich sequencefound near the N-terminus (residues 20 to 26) in HAd5 19k and near theC-terminus (residues 136 to 142) in the BAV3 protein (also shown in FIG.3).

On ORF beginning at the ATG at nt 1850 and terminating at nt 3110overlaps the preceding BAV3 protein reading frame and thus has the samerelationship to it as does the HAd5 E1B 56k protein to E1B 19k protein.As shown in FIG. 4 this BAV3 protein of 420R and the corresponding HAd5E1B 56k protein of 496R show considerable sequence homology over theirC-terminal 346 residues. The N-terminal regions of these proteins (notdepicted in the figure) show no significant homology and differ inoverall length.

Following the E1B ORFs, the open reading frame beginning at nt 3200 andending at the translation terminator TAA at nt 3575 defines a protein of125R with an unmodified molecular weight of 13,706. As seen in FIG. 5this protein shares some homology with the structural protein IX of HAd5particularly in N-terminal sequences.

Possible Transcription Control Reqions in BAV3 E1

The inverted terminal repeats (ITR) at the ends of the BAV3 genome havebeen shown to extend to 195 nt (Shinagawa et al, 1987 Gene 55:85-93).The GC-rich 3′ portion of the ITR contains a number of consensus bindingsites for the transcription stimulating protein SP1 (Dynan and Tijan(1983) Cell 35:79-87) and possible consensus sites for the adenovirustranscription factor (ATF) (Lee et al. (1987) Nature 325:368-372) occurat nts 60 and 220. While there are no exact consensus sites for thefactors EF-1A (Bruder and Healing (1989) Mol. Cell Biol. 9:5143-5153) orE2F (Kovesdi et al, 1987 PNAS, USA 84:2180-2184) upstream of the ATG atnt 606, there are numerous degenerate sequences which may define theenhancer region comparable to that seen in HAd5 (Hearing and Shenk, 1986Cell 45:229-236).

The proposed BAV3 E1A coding sequence terminates at a TGA residue at nt1346 which is located within a 35 base pair sequence which isimmediately directly repeated (see FIG. 1). Two repeats of this sequencewere detected in three independently derived clones for a plaquepurified stock of BAV3. The number of direct repeats can vary in anyBAV3 population though plaque purification allows for isolation of arelatively homogeneous population of viruses. That direct repeats in thesequences can function as promoter or enhancer elements for E1Btranscription is being tested. There are no strong polyA additionconsensus sites between the E1A and the E1B coding sequences and in factno AATAA sequence is found until after the protein IX coding sequencesfollowing E1B. The TATAAA sequence beginning at nt 1453 could functionas the proximal promoter for E1B but it is located closer to the ATG at1476 than is considered usual (McKnight et al, 1982 Science217:316-322). The TATA sequence located further upstream immediatelybefore the proposed E1A intron sequence also seems inappropriatelypositioned to serve as a transcription box for the E1B proteins. Thereare clearly some unique features in this region of the BAV3 genome.

The transcriptional control elements for the protein IX transcriptionunit are conventional and well defined. Almost immediately following theopen reading frame for the larger E1B protein there is, at nt 3117, aSP1 binding sequence. This is followed at 3135 by a TATAAAT sequencewhich could promote a transcript for the protein IX open reading framebeginning at the ATG at 3200 and ending with the TAA at 3575. One polyAaddition sequence begins within the translation termination codon andfour other AATAA sequences are located at nts 3612, 3664, 3796 and 3932.

In keeping with the general organization of the E1A region of otheradenoviruses, the BAV3 E1A region contains an intron sequence withtranslation termination codons in all three reading frames and which istherefore probably deleted by splicing from all E1A mRNA transcripts.The largest possible protein produced from the BAV3 E1A region will have211 amino acid residues and is the equivalent of the 289 amino acidprotein translated from the 13s mRNA of HAd5. Two striking features in acomparison of these proteins are the high degree of homology in a regioncorresponding to CR3 and the absence in BAV3 of most of amino acidscorresponding to the second exon of HAd5. In fact the only amino acidsencoded in the second exon of BAV3 are, those which are considered toconstitute part of CR3. A great deal of work carried out with HAd5 hasidentified the importance of the CR3 sequences in transactivation ofother HAd5 genes. While a detailed analysis of the corresponding BAV3region and its possible role in transactivation of BAV3 genes needs tobe carried out, it is none-the-less interesting to note a couple ofpossibly pertinent features. The HAd5 CR3 region has been operationallysubdivided into three regions (Lillie et al, 1989 Nature 338:39-44; seeFIG. 8); an N-terminal region from 139 to 153 which has four acidicresidues and is thought to be important in transcription activation, acentral, metal-binding, region defined by the Cys-X₂-Cys-X₁₃-CysX₂-Cyssequence which (SEQ ID NO: 30) is essential for both promoter bindingand activation, and a C-terminal region (residues 175-189) which isessential for promoter binding. Since, in most instances, E1A protein isthought not to interact directly with DNA (Ferguson et al 1985), thepromoter binding regions may be involved in forming associations withproteins which then allow association with DNA. In FIG. 2a the BAV3 E1Aprotein contains the central, metal binding domain and has considerablehomology in the carboxy portion of this region. The BAV3 E1A proteinalso shows identity of sequence with HAd5 in the carboxy 6 amino acidsof the promoter binding domain. These features may allow the BAV3 E1Aprotein to interact with the same transcription activating factorsrequired for HAd5 E1A function. In contrast, except for a Glu-Glu pairthere is little homology between the bovine and human viruses in theactivation domain. The fact that this domain can be functionallysubstituted by a heterologous acidic activation sequence (Lillie et al,1989 supra) suggests that protein specificity is not required in thisregion and this may allow the BAV3 E1A protein to function in theactivation of BAV3 genes. The BAV3 E1A activation region contains sixacidic residues in the 18 residues amino to the metal binding domain.

The other interesting feature of BAV3 E1A, which is undoubtedly relevantto the oncogenic potential of this virus, is the presence of thesequence Asp27-Leu-Glu-Cys-His-Glu which conforms to, a core sequenceknown to be important in the binding of cellular Rb and related proteinsby the transforming proteins of a number of DNA tumour viruses (Dyson etal, 1990 supra). From deletion mutant analysis there is a clearassociation between the potential of HAd5 E1A proteins to bind Rb andthe ability of the protein to induce morphological transformation inappropriate cells (see references in Dyson et al, 1990 supra). The BAV3E1A protein is distinct from its HAd5 counterpart in the relativeposition of this Rb binding sequence which is in the CR2 of HAd5 E1A andnear the N-terminus of the BAV3 E1A protein.

Through the use of alternative splice sites HAd5 E1A transcripts cangive rise to at least 5 distinct mRNA species (Berk et al, 1978 Cell14:695-711; Stephens et al, 1987 EMBO Journal 6:2027-2035). WhetherBAV3, like HAd5, can generate a number of different mRNA species throughthe use of alternative splice sites in the E1A transcripts remains to bedetermined. For example a potential splice donor site which could deletethe sequence equivalent to the unique sequence of HAd5 is presentimmediately after nt 1080 but it is not known if this site is actuallyused.

HAd5 E1B encodes two proteins (19k and 56k) either of which cancooperate with E1A, by pathways which are additive and thereforepresumably independent (McLorie et al, 1991 J. Gen. Virol.72:1467-1471), to produce morphological transformation of cells inculture (see for example: Branton et al, 1985 supra; Graham, 1984supra). The significance of the conservation of the hydrophobic stretchof amino acids in the central portion of the shorter E1B proteins ofHAd5 and BAV3 is not clear as yet. A second short region of homologyGln-Ser-Ser-X-Ser-Thr-Ser (SEQ ID NO: 31) at residue 136 near theC-terminus of the BAV3 protein is located near the N-terminus at residue20 in the HAd5 19k protein. The major difference in both length andsequence of the larger (420R) E1B protein of BAV3 from the correspondingHAd5 protein (496R) is confined to the N-terminus of these proteins. Thetwo proteins show considerable evolutionary homology in the 345 aminoacids that extend to their C-termini. A similar degree of homologyextends into the N-terminal halves of protein IX of BAV3 and HAd5. Takentogether these analyses suggest that while BAV3 and the humanadenoviruses have diverged by simple point mutational events in someregions, more dramatic genetic events such as deletion and recombinationmay have been operating in other regions particularly those defining thejunction between E1A and E1B.

Example 3

Cloning and Sequencing of the BAV3 E3 and Fibre Genes

The general organization of adenovirus genomes seems to be relativelywell conserved so it was possible to predict, from the locations of anumber of HAd E3. regions, that BAV E3 should lie between map units(m.u.) 77 to 86. To prepare DNA for cloning and sequencing, BAV3 (strainWBR-1) was grown in Madin-Darby bovine kidney (MDBK) cells, virions werepurified and DNA was extracted (Graham, F. L. & Prevec, L. (1991)Methods in Molecular Biology, vol. 7, Gene Transfer and ExpressionProtocols, pp. 109-146. Edited by E. J. Murray, Clifton, N.J.; HumanaPress.). Previously published restriction maps for EcoRI and BamHI(Kurokawa et al., 1978) were confirmed (FIG. 6). The BamHI D and EcoRI Ffragments of BAV3 DNA were isolated and inserted into pUC18 and pUC19vectors, and nested sets of deletions were made using exonuclease IIIand S1 nuclease (Henikoff S. (1984) Gene, 28:351-359). The resultingclones were sequenced by the dideoxynucleotide chain terminationtechnique (Sanger, F., Nicklen, S. & Coulson, A. R. (1977) Proceedingsof the National Academy of Sciences, U.S.A., 74:5463-5467). Thenucleotide sequence from positions 1 to 287 was obtained from the rightend of the BamHI B fragment (FIG. 6). The sequence of the regionsspanning (i) the BamHI site at nucleotide 3306 and the EcoRI site atnucleotide 3406, and (ii) the EcoRI site at nucleotide 4801 and thenucleotide 5100 was obtained from a plasmid containing the XbaI Cfragment (m.u. 83 to 100, not shown) using primers hybriding to BAV3sequences. Analysis of the sequence was performed with the aid of thePC/GENE sequence analysis package developed by Amos Bairoch, Departmentof Medical Biochemistry, University of Geneva, Switzerland.

The 5100 nucleotide sequence which extends between 77 and 92 m.u. of theBAV3 genome is shown in FIG. 7. The upper strand contains 14 openreading frames (ORFs) which could encode polypeptides of 60 amino acidresidues or more (FIGS. 6 and 7). The lower strand contains no ORFencoding a protein of longer than 50 amino acids after an initiationcodon. The predicted amino acid sequence for each ORF on the upperstrand was analyzed for homology with predicted amino acid sequencesfrom several sequenced Ads: HAd2 (Hérissé, J., Courtois, G. & Galibert,F. (1980) Nucleic Acids Research, 8:2173-2192; Hérissé, J., Courtois, G.& Galibert, F. (1981) Nucleic Acids Research, 9:1229-1249), -3(Signas,C., Akusjarvi, G. & Pettersson, U. (1985) Journal of Virology,53:672-678.), -5(Cladaras, C. & Wold, W. S. M. (1985) Virology,140:28-43), -7 (Hong, J. S., Mullis, K. G. & Engler, J. A. (1988)Virology, 167:545-553) and—35(Flomenberg, P. R., Chen, M. & Horwitz, M.S. (1988) Journal of Virology, 62:4431-4437), and murine Ad1 (MAd1)(Raviprakash, K. S., Grunhaus, A., El Kholy, M. A. & Horwitz, M. S.(1989) Journal of Virology, 63:5455-5458) and canine Ad1 (CAd1)(Dragulev, B. P., Sira, S., Abouhaidar, M. G. & Campbell, J. B. (1991)Virology, 183:298-305). Three of the BAV3 ORFs exhibited homology withcharacterized HAd proteins pVIII, fibre and the 14.7K E3 protein. Theamino acid sequence predicted from BAV3 ORF 1 shows overall identity ofapproximately 55% when compared to the C-terminal 75% of HAd2 pVIII(Cladaras & Wold, 1985, supra) (FIG. 8a), indicating that ORF 1 encodesthe right end of BAd3 pVIII. Near the C-terminal end of BAd3 pVIII thereis a 67 amino acid stretch (residues 59 to 125; FIG. 8a) which has 75%identity with HAd2 pVIII. This region has previously been shown to behighly conserved among different Ads (Cladaras & Wold, 1985, supra;Signas, C., Akusjarvi, G. & Pettersson, U. (1986) Gene, 50:173-184,;Raviprakash et al., 1989, supra; Dragulev et al., 1991, supra).

The fibre protein is present on the surface of the virion as longprojections from each vertex of the icosahedral capsid and is involvedin a number of Ad functions including attachment of the virus to thecell surface during infection, assembly of virions and antigenicity(Philipson, L. (1983) Current Topics in Microbiology and Immunology,109:1-52). On the basis of the primary structure of HAd2 fibre protein,it has been proposed that the shaft region (between amino acid residues40 and 400) is composed of a number of repeating structural motifscontaining about 15 hydrophobic residues organized in two short β-sheetsand two β-bends (Green, N. M., Wrigley, N. G., Russell, W. C., Martin,S. R. & McLachlan, A. D. (1983) EMBO Journal, 2:1357-1365). The aminoacid sequences at the N terminus of the BAV3 ORF 6-encoded protein shareabout 60% identity with the HAd2 fibre protein tail, but there is littleor no similarity in the knob region, and about 45% identity overall(FIG. 8c). The BAd3 fibre gene would encode a protein of 976 residues ifno splicing occurs, i.e. 394 amino acid residues longer than the HAd2fibre protein. The number of repeating motifs in the shaft region of thefibre protein from different Ads varies between 28 and 23 (Signas etal., 1985, supra; Chroboczek, J. & Jacrot, B. (1987) Virology,161:549-554; Hong et al., 1988, supra; Raviprakash et al., 1989, supra;Dragulev et al., 1991, supra). The BAV3 fibre protein can be organizedinto 52 such repeats in this region (not shown), which would account formost of the difference in size compared to those of HAd2, HAd3, HAD5,HAd7, CAd1 and MAd1 (Signas et al., 1985,supra; Hérissé et al.,1980,supra; Hérissé & Galibert, 1981, supra; Hong et al., 1988,supra;Raviprakash et al., 1989, supra; Dragulev et al., 1991, supra).

HAd2 and HAd5 E3 lies between the pVIII and the fibre genes an encodesat least 10 polypeptides (Cladaras & Wold, 1985,supra). The promoter forE3 of these two serotypes lies within the sequences encoding pVIII,about 320 bp 5′ of the termination codon. No consensus TATA box is foundin the corresponding region of the BAV3 sequences. A non-canonicalpolyadenylation signal (ATAAA) for E3 transcripts is located at position1723, between the end of the putative E3 region and the beginning of ORF6, encoding the fibre protein, and two consensus signals are locatedwithin ORF 6 at positions 2575 and 3565. The polyadenylation signal forthe fibre protein is located at nucleotide 4877. Six ORFs wereidentified in the BAV3 genome between the pVIII and the fibre genes, butonly four (ORFs 2, 3, 4 and 5) have the potential to encode polypeptidesof at least 50 amino acids after an initiation codon (FIG. 7). The aminoacid sequence predicted to be encoded by ORF 2 is 307 residues long andcontains eight potential N-glycosylation sites (FIG. 7) as well as ahydrophobic sequence which may be a potential transmembrane domain(PLLFAFVLCTGCAVLLTAFGPSILSGT) (SEQ ID NO: 32) between residues 262 and289. This domain may be a part of the protein homologous to the HAd2 andHAd5 19K E3 glycoprotein (Cladaras & Wold, 1985, supra), and theproposed CAd1 22.2K protein (Dragulev et al., 1991, supra), but ORF 2does not show appreciable homology with these proteins. The ORF 4 showsapproximately 44% identity with the 14.7K E3 protein of HAd5 (FIGS. 6and 8b), which has been shown to prevent lysis of virus-infected mousecells by tumour necrosis factor (Gooding, L. R., E more, L. W.,Tollefson, A. E., Brody, H. A. & Wold, W. S. M. (1988) Cell, 53:341-346;Wold, W. S. M. & Gooding, L. R. (1989) Molecular Biology and Medicine,6:433-452). Analysis of the 14.7K protein sequence from HAd2, -3, -5 and-7 has revealed a highly conserved domain, which in HAd5 lies betweenamino acid residues 41 and 56 (Horton, T. M., Tollefson, A. E., Wold, W.S. M. & Gooding, L. R. (1990) Journal of Virology, 64:1250-1255). Thecorresponding region in the BAV3 ORF 4-encoded protein, between aminoacids 70 and 85, contains 11 amino acids identical to those of the HAd514.7K protein conserved domain (FIG. 8b).

The BAV3 E3 region appears to be approximately 1.5 kbp long, about halfthe size of those of HAd2 and —5 (Cladaras & Wold, 1985, supra), andnovel splicing events in BAV3 E3 would be required to generate morehomologues to the HAd3 E3 proteins. A similarly short E3 region has beenreported for MAd1 (RAviprakash et al., 1989, supra) and CAd1 (Dragulevet al., 1991,supra).

Example 4

Construction of BAV3-luciferase Recombinants

Adenovirus-based mammalian cell expression vectors have gainedtremendous importance in the last few years as a vehicle for recombinantvaccine delivery, and also in gene therapy. BAV3-based expressionvectors have a greater potential for developing novel recombinantvaccines for veterinary use. To show that BAV3 E3 gene products are notessential for virus growth in cultured cells and this locus could beused to insert foreign DNA sequences, a 1.7 kb fragment containing thefirefly luciferase gene was introduced in the 696 bp deletion of the E3region of the BAV3 genome in the E3 parallel orientation to generate aBAV3 recombinant.

The rationale of using the luciferase gene is that it acted as a highlysensitive reporter gene when introduced in the E3 region of the HAd5genome to generate HAd5-Luc recombinants (Mittal et al (1993) Virus Res.28:67-90).

To facilitate the insertion of the firefly luciferase gene into the E3region of the BAV3 genome, a BAV3 E3 transfer vector containing theluciferase gene was constructed (FIG. 9). The BAV3 E3 region fallsapproximately between m.u. 77 and 82. In our first series of vectors wereplaced a 696 bp XhoI-NcoI E3 deletion (between m.u. 78.8 and 80.8)with a NruI-SalI cloning sites for insertion of foreign genes to obtainpSM14del2. A 1716 bp BsmI-SspI fragment containing the luciferase genewas isolated and first inserted into an intermediate plasmid, pSM41, inthe E3 locus at the SalI site by blunt end ligation to generatepSM41-Luc. The luciferase gene without any exogenous regulatorysequences, was inserted into the E3 locus in the same orientation as theE3 transcription unit. The kan^(r) gene was inserted into pSM41-Luc atthe XbaI site present within the luciferase gene to generate anamp^(r)/kan^(r) plasmid, pSM41-Luc-Kan. A 7.7 kb fragment containing theBAV3 sequences along with the luciferase gene and the kan^(r) gene wasobtained from pSM41-Luc-Kan by digestion with BamHI and inserted into anamp^(r) plasmid, pSM51 partially digested with BamHI to replace a 3.0 kbBamHI fragment (lies between m.u. 77.8 and 86.4) to generate a doublyresistant (kan^(r) & amp^(r)) plasmid, pSM51-Luc-Kan. The kan^(r) genewas deleted from pSM51-Luc-Kan by partial cleavage with XbaI to generatepSM51-Luc containing the luciferase gene in the E3-parallel orientation.

MDBK cells transformed with a plasmid containing the BAV3 E1 sequenceswas cotransfected with the wt BAV3 DNA digested with PvuI, which maketwo cuts within the BAV3 genome at m.u 65.7 and 71.1, and the plasmid,pSM51-Luc to rescue the luciferase gene in E3 of the BAV3 genome by invivo recombination (FIG. 10). The digestion of the wt BAV3 DNA with PvuIwas helpful in minimizing the generation of the wt virus plaquesfollowing cotransfection. The left end of the wt BAV3 genome representedby PvuI ‘A’ fragment falls between m.u. 0 and 65.7, and pSM51-Luc whichextends between m.u. 31.5 and 100 (except for E3 deletion replaced withthe luciferase gene) have sufficient overlapping BAV3 DNA sequences togenerate recombinant viruses.

Two virus plaques were obtained in two independent cotransfectionexperiments which were grown in MDBK cells. The viral DNA from bothplaques was extracted and analyzed by agarose gel electrophoresis afterdigesting either with BamHI, EcoRI or XbaI to identify the presence andorientation of the luciferase gene in the viral genome (data not shown).In the genomes of both recombinants, the luciferase gene was present inthe E3 region in the E3 parallel orientation. The BAV3-luciferaserecombinants were plaque purified and named BAV3-Luc (3.1) and BAV3-Luc(3.2) to represent plaques obtained from two independent experiments.Since both recombinant virus isolates were identical they will bereferred to as BAV3-Luc. The presence of the luciferase gene in BAV3-Lucisolates are further confirmed by Southern blot analyses and luciferaseassays using extracts from recombinant virus-infected cells.

Characterization of BAV3-recombinants

Southern blot analyses of the wt BAV3 and recombinants genomic DNAdigested either with BamHI, EcoRI or XbaI, were carried out to confirmthe presence and orientation of the luciferase gene in the E3 locus andthe deletion of the 696 bp XhoI-NcoI fragment from E3 of the BAV3-Lucgenome (FIG. 11). When the blot was probed with a 696 XhoI-NcoI fragmentof E3 of the BAV3 genome (panel A, lanes 4 to 9) no hybridization signalwas detected with the DNA fragments from the recombinant viruses,however, the expected bands (3.0 kb BamHI, 8.1 kb EcoRI, and 18.5 kbXbaI) of the wt BAV3 DNA fragments (panel A, lanes 10 to 12) showedhybridization, confirming that the 696 bp XhoI-NcoI fragment of the E3region was indeed deleted in the BAV3-Luc genomic DNA. In panel B, whenan identical blot was probed with the luciferase gene, there were stronghybridization signals with the DNA fragments from the recombinantviruses (4.0 kb BamHI (lane 4 & 7), 6.0 kb & 3.2 kb EcoRI (lanes 5 & 8),16.7 kb & 2.9 kb XbaI (lanes 6 & 9)). These results confirmed that theBAV3-Luc contains the luciferase gene in the E3 parallel orientationwith a 696 bp XhoI-NcoI E3 deletion.

The growth characteristics of the recombinant viruses was compared withthe wt BAV3 in a single step growth curve (FIG. 12). Virus titers inMDBK cells-infected with the wt BAV3 started increasing at 12 hpost-infection reaching a maximum at 36-48 h post-infection and thendeclined thereafter. Virus titers of the recombinant viruses alsostarted increasing at 12 h postinfection reaching a maximum at 48 hpost-infection and then declined, however, the titers of recombinantviruses remained approximately one log lower than the wt virus. Theplaque size of the recombinant viruses were also comparatively smallerthan the wt virus (data not shown).

Kinetics of Luciferase Expression by BAV3-Luc

Luciferase activity in BAV3-Luc-infected MDBK cells was monitored atdifferent times post-infection by luciferase assays (FIG. 13). A lowlevel of luciferase activity was first observed at 12 h post-infectionreaching a peak at 30 h post-infection and then dropped subsequently. At30 h post-infection, approximately 425 pg luciferase was detected in4×10⁵ BAV3-Luc (3.1)-infected MDBK cells. In MDBK cells-infected withthe wt BAV3, luciferase expression was not detected (data not shown).The kinetics of luciferase expression by BAV3-Luc (3.1) and BAV3-Luc(3.2) appears very much similar. The kinetics of luciferase expressionalso showed that the majority of enzyme expression in virus-infectedcells seemed to occur late in infection. To determine luciferaseexpression in the absence of viral DNA replication, BAV3-Luc-infectedMDBK cells were incubated in the presence of an inhibitor of DNAsynthesis, 1-β-D-arabinofuranosyl cytosine (AraC) and luciferaseactivity was measured in virus-infected cell extracts at various timespost-infection and compared to luciferase expression obtained in theabsence of AraC (FIG. 14). When the recombinant virus-infected cellswere incubated in the presence of AraC, luciferase expression at 18, 24and 30 h post-infection was approximately 20-30% of the value obtainedin the absence of AraC. These results indicated that the majority ofluciferase expression in MDBK cells infected with BAV3-Luc took placeafter the onset of viral DNA synthesis. To confirm this MDBKcells-infected with the BAV3-Luc were grown in the absence or presenceof AraC, harvested at 18 h, 24 h, and 30 h post-infection, viral DNAextracted and analyzed by dot bot analysis using pSM51-Luc (see FIG. 9)as a probe (data not shown). In the presence of AraC, viral DNAsynthesis was severely reduced compared to viral DNA synthesis in theabsence of AraC.

Western Blot Analysis of BAV3-Luc-infected Cells

Luciferase was expressed as an active enzyme as determined by luciferaseassays using extracts from MDBK cells-infected with BAV3-Luc (see FIG.13). The luciferase gene without any exogenous regulatory sequences wasinserted into E3 of the BAV3 genome, therefore, there was a possibilityof luciferase expression as a fusion protein with part of an E3 proteinif the luciferase gene was in the same frame, Such as, F1 and F3 whichrepresent open reading frames (ORFs) for E3 proteins (FIG. 15) or thefusion protein may arise due to recognition of an upstream initiationcodon in the luciferase ORF. To explore this possibility we sequencedthe DNA at the junction of the luciferase gene and the BAV3 sequenceswith the help of a plasmid, pSM51-Luc and a synthetic primer design tobind luciferase coding sequences near the initiation codon (data notshown). The luciferase coding region fell in frame F2. The luciferaseinitiation codon was the first start codon in this frame, however, theORF started at 84 nucleotides upstream of the luciferase start codon. Tofurther confirm that luciferase protein is of the same molecular weightas purified firefly luciferase, unlabeled mock-infected, wtBAV3-infected or BAV3-Luc-infected MDBK cell extracts were reacted withan anti-luciferase antibody in a Western blot (FIG. 16). A 62 kDapolypeptide band was visible in the BAV3-Luc (lane 3 and 4)-infectedcell extracts which were of the same molecular weight as pure fireflyluciferase (lane 5). We are not sure whether a band of approximately 30kDa which also reacted with the anti-luciferase antibody in lanes 3 and4 represented a degraded luciferase protein.

The majority of luciferase expression is probably driven from the majorlate promoter (MLP) to provide expression paralleling viral late geneexpression, moreover, the enzyme expression seen in the presence of AraCmay be taking place from the E3 promoter. In HAd5 vectors, foreign geneswithout any exogenous regulatory sequences when inserted in E3 alsodisplayed late kinetics and were inhibited by AraC. The BAV3 recombinantvirus replicated relatively well in cultured cells but not as good asthe wt BAV3. This is not surprising as infectious virus titers of anumber of HAd5 recombinants were slightly lower than the wt HAd5 (Bettet al (1993) J. Virol. 67:5911-5921). This may be because of reducedexpression of fiber protein in recombinant adenoviruses having insertsin the E3 region compared to the wt virus (Bett et al, supra and Mittalet al (1993) Virus Res. 28:67-90).

The E3 of BAV3 is approximately half the size of the E3 region of HAd2or HAd5 and thus has the coding potential for only half the number ofproteins compared to E3 of HAd2 or HAd5 (Cladaras et al (1985) Virology140:28-43: Herisse et al (1980) Nuc. Acids Res. 8:2173-2192; Herisse etal (1981) Nuc. Acids Res. 9:1229-1249 and Mittal et al (1993 J. Gen.Virol. 73:3295-3000). BAV3 E3 gene products have been shown to be notrequired for virus growth in tissue culture. However, presently it isknown that BAV3 E3 gene products also evade immune surveillance in vivolike HAds E3 proteins. One of the BAV3 E3 open reading frames (ORFs) hasbeen shown to have amino acid homology with the 14.7 kDa E3 protein ofHAds (Mittal et al (1993) supra). The 14.7 kDa E3 protein of HAdsprevents lysis of virus-infected mouse cells by tumour necrosis factor(Gooding et al (1988) Cell 53:341-346 and Horton et al (1990) J. Virol.64:1250-1255). The study of pathogenesis and immune responses of aseries of BAV3 E3 deletion mutants in cattle provides very usefulinformation regarding the role of E3 gene products in modulating immuneresponses in their natural host.

The BAV3-based vector has a 0.7 kb E3 deletion which can hold an insertup to 2.5 kb in size. The BAV3 E3 deletion can extend probably up to 1.4kb which in turn would also increase the insertion capacity of thissystem. The role of the MLP and the E3 promoter is examined to determinetheir ability to drive expression of a foreign gene inserted into E3when a proper polyadenylation signal is provided. Exogenous promoters,such as, the simian virus 40 (SV40) promoter (Subramant et al (1983)Anal. Biochem. 135:1-15), the human cytomegalovirus immediate earlypromoter (Boshart et al (1985) Cell 43:215-222), and the humanbeta-actin promoter (Gunning et al (1987) PNAS, USA 84:4831-4835) aretested to evaluate their ability to facilitate expression of foreigngenes when introduced into E3 of the BAV3 genome.

Recently HAd-based expression vectors are under close scrutiny for theirpotential use in human gene therapy (Ragot et al (1993) Nature361:647-650; Rosenfeld et al (1991) Science 252:431-434; Rosenfeld et al(1992) Cell 68:141-155 and Stratford-Perricaudet et al (1990) Hum. Gene.Ther. 1:241-256). A preferable adenovirus vector for gene therapy wouldbe one which maintains expression of the required gene for indefinite orfor a long period in the target organ or tissue. It may be obtained ifthe recombinant virus vector genome is incorporate into the host genomeor maintained its independent existence extrachromosomally withoutactive virus replication. HAds replicate very well in human, being theirnatural host. HAds can be made defective in replication by deleting theE1 region, however, how such vectors would maintain the expression ofthe target gene in a required fashion is not very clear. Moreover, thepresence of anti-HAds antibodies in almost every human being may createsome problems with the HAd-based delivery system. The adenovirus genomeshave a tendency to form circles in non-permissive cells. BAV-basedvectors could provide a possible alternative to HAd-based vectors forhuman gene therapy. As BAV3 does not replicate in human, the recombinantBAV3 genomes may be maintained as independent circles in human cellsproviding expression of the essential protein for a long period of time.

The foreign gene insertion in animal adenoviruses is much more difficultthan HAds because it is hard to develop a cell line which is also goodfor adenovirus DNA-mediated transfection. This may be one of the majorreasons that the development of an animal adenovirus-based expressionsystem has not been reported so far. It took us more than a year toisolate a cell line suitable for BAV3 DNA-mediated transfection.However, the rapid implementation of BAV-based expression vectors forthe production of live virus recombinant vaccines for farm animals, isvery promising. BAVs grow in the respiratory and gastrointestinal tractsof cattle, therefore, recombinant BAV-based vaccines have use to providea protective mucosal immune response, in addition to humoral andcellular immune responses, against pathogens where mucosal immunityplays a major role in protection.

Example 5

Generation of Cell Lines Transformed with the BAV3 E1 Sequences

MDBK cells in monolayer cultures were transfected with pSM71-neo,pSM61-kan1 or pSM61-kan2 by a lipofection-mediated transfectiontechnique (GIBCO/BRL, Life Technologies, Inc., Grand Island, N.Y.). At48 h after transfection, cells were maintained in the MEM supplementedwith 5% fetal bovine serum and 700 μg/ml G418. The medium was changedevery 3rd day. In the presence of G418, only those cells would growwhich have stably incorporated the plasmid DNA used in transfectionexperiments into their genomes and are expressing the neo^(r) gene. Thecells which have incorporated the neo^(r) gene might also have taken upthe BAV3 E1 sequences and thus expressing BAV3 E1 protein/s. A number ofneor (i.e., G418-resistant) colonies were isolated, expended and testedfor the presence of BAV3 E1 message/s by Northern blot analyses using aDNA probe containing only the BAV3 E1 sequences. Expression of BAV3 E1protein/s were confirmed by a complimentation assay using a HAd5deletion mutant defective in E1 function due to an E1 deletion.

Fetal bovine kidney cells in monolayers were also transfected withpSM71-neo, pSM61kan-1 or pSM61-kan2 by the lipofection-mediatedtransfection technique, electroporation (Chu et al (1987) Nucl. AcidsRes. 15:1311-1326), or calcium phosphate precipitation technique (Grahamet al (1973) Virology 52:456-467). Similarly, a number of G418-resistantcolonies were isolated, expended and tested for the presence of BAV3 E1gene products as mentioned above.

Example 6

Generation of a BAV3 Recombinant Containing the Beta-galactosidase Geneas an E1 Insert

As E1 gene products are essential for virus replication, adenovirusrecombinants containing E1 inserts will grow only in a cell line whichis transformed with the adenovirus E1 sequences and expresses E1. Anumber of cell line which are transformed with the BAV3 E1 sequenceswere isolated as described earlier. The technique of foreign geneinsertions into the E1 regions is similar to the gene insertion into theE3 region of the BAV3 genome, however, for insertion into E1 there is aneed of an E1 transfer plasmid which contains DNA sequences from theleft end of the BAV3 genome, an appropriate deletion and a cloning sitefor the insertion of foreign DNA sequences. G418-resistant MDBK cellmonolayers were cotransfected with the wild-type (wt) BAV3 DNA andpSM71-Z following the lipofection-mediated transfection procedure(GIBCO/BRL, Life Technologies, Inc., Grand Island, N.Y.). The monolayerswere incubated at 37° C. under an agarose overlay. After a weekpost-incubation an another layer of overlay containing 300 ug/mlBlu-gal™ (GIBCO/BRL Canada, Burlington, Ontario, Canada) was put ontoeach monolayer. The blue plaques were isolated, plaque purified and thepresence of the beta-galactosidase gene in the BAV3 genome wasidentified by agarose gel electrophoresis of recombinant virus DNAdigested with suitable restriction enzymes and confirmed bybeta-galactosidase assays using extracts from recombinant virus infectedcells.

Deposit of Biological Materials

The following materials were deposited and are maintained with theVeterinary Infectious Disease Organization (VIDO), Saskatoon,Saskatchewan, Canada.

The nucleotide sequences of the deposited materials are incorporated byreference herein, as well as the sequences of the polypeptides encodedthereby. In the event of any discrepancy between a sequence expresslydisclosed herein and a deposited sequence, the deposited sequence iscontrolling.

Material Internal Accession No. Deposit Date Recombinant plasmids pSM51pSM51 Dec 6, 1993 pSM71 pSM71 Dec 6, 1993 Recombinant cell lines MDBKcells transformed with BAV3 E1 sequences Dec 6, 1993 (MDBK-BAVE1) Fetalbovine kidney cells transformed with BAV3 E1 Dec 6, 1993 sequences(FBK-BAV-E1)

While the present invention has been illustrated above by certainspecific embodiments, the specific examples are not intended to limitthe scope of the invention as described in the appended claims.

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adenovirus type 3 CDS (1476)..(1946) 3 catcatcaat aatctacagtacactgatgg cagcggtcca actgccaatc atttttgcca 60 cgtcatttat gacgcaacgacggcgagcgt ggcgtgctga cgtaactgtg gggcggagcg 120 cgtcgcggag gcggcggcgctgggcggggc tgagggcggc gggggcggcg cgcggggcgg 180 cgcgcggggc ggggcgaggggcggagttcc gcacccgcta cgtcattttc agacattttt 240 tagcaaattt gcgccttttgcaagcatttt tctcacattt caggtattta gagggcggat 300 ttttggtgtt cgtacttccgtgtcacatag ttcactgtca atcttcatta cggcttagac 360 aaattttcgg cgtcttttccgggtttatgt ccccggtcac ctttatgact gtgtgaaaca 420 cacctgccca ttgtttacccttggtcagtt ttttcgtctc ctagggtggg aacatcaaga 480 acaaatttgc cgagtaattgtgcacctttt tccgcgttag gactgcgttt cacacgtaga 540 cagacttttt ctcattttctcacactccgt cgtccgcttc agagctctgc gtcttcgctg 600 ccaccatgaa gtacctggtcctcgttctca acgacggcat gagtcgaatt gaaaaagctc 660 tcctgtgcag cgatggtgaggtggatttag agtgtcatga ggtacttccc ccttctcccg 720 cgcctgtccc cgcttctgtgtcacccgtga ggagtcctcc tcctctgtct ccggtgtttc 780 ctccgtctcc gccagccccgcttgtgaatc cagaggcgag ttcgctgctg cagcagtatc 840 ggagagagct gttagagaggagcctgctcc gaacggccga aggtcagcag cgtgcagtgt 900 gtccatgtga gcggttgcccgtggaagagg atgagtgtct gaatgccgta aatttgctgt 960 ttcctgatcc ctggctaaatgcagctgaaa atgggggtga tatttttaag tctccggcta 1020 tgtctccaga accgtggatagatttgtcta gctacgatag cgatgtagaa gaggtgacta 1080 gtcacttttt tctggattgccctgaagacc ccagtcggga gtgttcatct tgtgggtttc 1140 atcaggctca aagcggaattccaggcatta tgtgcagttt gtgctacatg cgccaaacct 1200 accattgcat ctatagtaagtacattctgt aaaagaacat cttggtgatt tctaggtatt 1260 gtttagggat taactgggtggagtgatctt aatccggcat aaccaaatac atgttttcac 1320 aggtccagtt tctgaagaggaaatgtgagt catgttgact ttggcgcgca agaggaaatg 1380 tgagtcatgt tgactttggcgcgccctacg gtgactttaa agcaatttga ggatcacttt 1440 tttgttagtc gctataaagtagtcacggag tcttc atg gat cac tta agc gtt 1493 Met Asp His Leu Ser Val 15 ctt ttg gat ttg aag ctg ctt cgc tct atc gta gcg ggg gct tca aat 1541Leu Leu Asp Leu Lys Leu Leu Arg Ser Ile Val Ala Gly Ala Ser Asn 10 15 20cgc act gga gtg tgg aag agg cgg ctg tgg ctg gga cgc ctg act caa 1589 ArgThr Gly Val Trp Lys Arg Arg Leu Trp Leu Gly Arg Leu Thr Gln 25 30 35 ctggtc cat gat acc tgc gta gag aac gag agc ata ttt ctc aat tct 1637 Leu ValHis Asp Thr Cys Val Glu Asn Glu Ser Ile Phe Leu Asn Ser 40 45 50 ctg ccaggg aat gaa gct ttt tta agg ttg ctt cgg agc ggc tat ttt 1685 Leu Pro GlyAsn Glu Ala Phe Leu Arg Leu Leu Arg Ser Gly Tyr Phe 55 60 65 70 gaa gtgttt gac gtg ttt gtg gtg cct gag ctg cat ctg gac act ccg 1733 Glu Val PheAsp Val Phe Val Val Pro Glu Leu His Leu Asp Thr Pro 75 80 85 ggt cga gtggtc gcc gct ctt gct ctg ctg gtg ttc atc ctc aac gat 1781 Gly Arg Val ValAla Ala Leu Ala Leu Leu Val Phe Ile Leu Asn Asp 90 95 100 tta gac gctaat tct gct tct tca ggc ttt gat tca ggt ttt ctc gtg 1829 Leu Asp Ala AsnSer Ala Ser Ser Gly Phe Asp Ser Gly Phe Leu Val 105 110 115 gac cgt ctctgc gtg ccg cta tgg ctg aag gcc agg gcg ttc aag atc 1877 Asp Arg Leu CysVal Pro Leu Trp Leu Lys Ala Arg Ala Phe Lys Ile 120 125 130 acc cag agctcc agg agc act tcg cag cct tcc tcg tcg ccc gac aag 1925 Thr Gln Ser SerArg Ser Thr Ser Gln Pro Ser Ser Ser Pro Asp Lys 135 140 145 150 acg acccag act acc agc cag tagacgggga cagcccaccc cgggctagcc 1976 Thr Thr GlnThr Thr Ser Gln 155 tggaggaggc tgaacagagc agcactcgtt tcgagcacatcagttaccga gacgtggtgg 2036 atgacttcaa tagatgccat gatgtttttt atgagaggtacagttttgag gacataaaga 2096 gctacgaggc tttgcctgag gacaatttgg agcagctcatagctatgcat gctaaaatca 2156 agctgctgcc cggtcgggag tatgagttga ctcaacctttgaacataaca tcttgcgcct 2216 atgtgctcgg aaatggggct actattaggg taacaggggaagcctccccg gctattagag 2276 tgggggccat ggccgtgggt ccgtgtgtaa caggaatgactggggtgact tttgtgaatt 2336 gtaggtttga gagagagtca acaattaggg ggtccctgatacgagcttca actcacgtgc 2396 tgtttcatgg ctgttatttt atgggaatta tgggcacttgtattgaggtg ggggcgggag 2456 cttacattcg gggttgtgag tttgtgggct gttaccggggaatctgttct acttctaaca 2516 gagatattaa ggtgaggcag tgcaactttg acaaatgcttactgggtatt acttgtaagg 2576 gggactatcg tctttcggga aatgtgtgtt ctgagactttctgctttgct catttagagg 2636 gagagggttt ggttaaaaac aacacagtca agtcccctagtcgctggacc agcgagtctg 2696 gcttttccat gataacttgt gcagacggca gggttacgcctttgggttcc ctccacattg 2756 tgggcaaccg ttgtaggcgt tggccaacca tgcaggggaatgtgtttatc atgtctaaac 2816 tgtatctggg caacagaata gggactgtag ccctgccccagtgtgctttc tacaagtcca 2876 gcatttgttt ggaggagagg gcgacaaaca agctggtcttggcttgtgct tttgagaata 2936 atgtactggt gtacaaagtg ctgagacggg agagtccctcaaccgtgaaa atgtgtgttt 2996 gtgggacttc tcattatgca aagcctttga cactggcaattatttcttca gatattcggg 3056 ctaatcgata catgtacact gtggactcaa cagagttcacttctgacgag gattaaaagt 3116 gggcggggcc aagaggggta taaataggtg gggaggttgaggggagccgt agtttctgtt 3176 tttcccagac tgggggggac aacatggccg aggaagggcgcatttatgtg ccttatgtaa 3236 ctgcccgcct gcccaagtgg tcgggttcgg tgcaggataagacgggctcg aacatgttgg 3296 ggggtgtggt actccctcct aattcacagg cgcaccggacggagaccgtg ggcactgagg 3356 ccaccagaga caacctgcac gccgagggag cgcgtcgtcctgaggatcag acgccctaca 3416 tgatcttggt ggaggactct ctgggaggtt tgaagaggcgaatggacttg ctggaagaat 3476 ctaatcagca gctgctggca actctcaacc gtctccgtacaggactcgct gcctatgtgc 3536 aggctaacct tgtgggcggc caagttaacc cctttgtttaaataaaaata cactcataca 3596 gtttattatg ctgtcaataa aattctttat ttttcctgtgataataccgt gtccagcgtg 3656 ctctgtcaat aagggtccta tgcatcctga gaagggcctcatatacccat ggcatgaata 3716 ttaagataca tgggcataag gccctcagaa gggttgaggtagagccactg cagactttcg 3776 tggggaggta aggtgttgta aataatccag tcatactgactgtgctgggc gtggaaggaa 3836 aagatgtctt ttagaagaag ggtgattggc aaagggaggctcttagtgta ggtattgata 3896 aatctgttca gttgggaggg atgcattcgg gggctaataaggtggagttt agcctgaatc 3956 ttaaggttgg caatgttgcc ccctaggtct ttgcgaggattcatgttgtg cagtaccaca 4016 aaaacagagt agcctgtgca tttggggaat ttatcatgaagctt 4060 4 157 PRT Bovine adenovirus type 3 4 Met Asp His Leu Ser ValLeu Leu Asp Leu Lys Leu Leu Arg Ser Ile 1 5 10 15 Val Ala Gly Ala SerAsn Arg Thr Gly Val Trp Lys Arg Arg Leu Trp 20 25 30 Leu Gly Arg Leu ThrGln Leu Val His Asp Thr Cys Val Glu Asn Glu 35 40 45 Ser Ile Phe Leu AsnSer Leu Pro Gly Asn Glu Ala Phe Leu Arg Leu 50 55 60 Leu Arg Ser Gly TyrPhe Glu Val Phe Asp Val Phe Val Val Pro Glu 65 70 75 80 Leu His Leu AspThr Pro Gly Arg Val Val Ala Ala Leu Ala Leu Leu 85 90 95 Val Phe Ile LeuAsn Asp Leu Asp Ala Asn Ser Ala Ser Ser Gly Phe 100 105 110 Asp Ser GlyPhe Leu Val Asp Arg Leu Cys Val Pro Leu Trp Leu Lys 115 120 125 Ala ArgAla Phe Lys Ile Thr Gln Ser Ser Arg Ser Thr Ser Gln Pro 130 135 140 SerSer Ser Pro Asp Lys Thr Thr Gln Thr Thr Ser Gln 145 150 155 5 4060 DNABovine adenovirus type 3 CDS (1850)..(3109) 5 catcatcaat aatctacagtacactgatgg cagcggtcca actgccaatc atttttgcca 60 cgtcatttat gacgcaacgacggcgagcgt ggcgtgctga cgtaactgtg gggcggagcg 120 cgtcgcggag gcggcggcgctgggcggggc tgagggcggc gggggcggcg cgcggggcgg 180 cgcgcggggc ggggcgaggggcggagttcc gcacccgcta cgtcattttc agacattttt 240 tagcaaattt gcgccttttgcaagcatttt tctcacattt caggtattta gagggcggat 300 ttttggtgtt cgtacttccgtgtcacatag ttcactgtca atcttcatta cggcttagac 360 aaattttcgg cgtcttttccgggtttatgt ccccggtcac ctttatgact gtgtgaaaca 420 cacctgccca ttgtttacccttggtcagtt ttttcgtctc ctagggtggg aacatcaaga 480 acaaatttgc cgagtaattgtgcacctttt tccgcgttag gactgcgttt cacacgtaga 540 cagacttttt ctcattttctcacactccgt cgtccgcttc agagctctgc gtcttcgctg 600 ccaccatgaa gtacctggtcctcgttctca acgacggcat gagtcgaatt gaaaaagctc 660 tcctgtgcag cgatggtgaggtggatttag agtgtcatga ggtacttccc ccttctcccg 720 cgcctgtccc cgcttctgtgtcacccgtga ggagtcctcc tcctctgtct ccggtgtttc 780 ctccgtctcc gccagccccgcttgtgaatc cagaggcgag ttcgctgctg cagcagtatc 840 ggagagagct gttagagaggagcctgctcc gaacggccga aggtcagcag cgtgcagtgt 900 gtccatgtga gcggttgcccgtggaagagg atgagtgtct gaatgccgta aatttgctgt 960 ttcctgatcc ctggctaaatgcagctgaaa atgggggtga tatttttaag tctccggcta 1020 tgtctccaga accgtggatagatttgtcta gctacgatag cgatgtagaa gaggtgacta 1080 gtcacttttt tctggattgccctgaagacc ccagtcggga gtgttcatct tgtgggtttc 1140 atcaggctca aagcggaattccaggcatta tgtgcagttt gtgctacatg cgccaaacct 1200 accattgcat ctatagtaagtacattctgt aaaagaacat cttggtgatt tctaggtatt 1260 gtttagggat taactgggtggagtgatctt aatccggcat aaccaaatac atgttttcac 1320 aggtccagtt tctgaagaggaaatgtgagt catgttgact ttggcgcgca agaggaaatg 1380 tgagtcatgt tgactttggcgcgccctacg gtgactttaa agcaatttga ggatcacttt 1440 tttgttagtc gctataaagtagtcacggag tcttcatgga tcacttaagc gttcttttgg 1500 atttgaagct gcttcgctctatcgtagcgg gggcttcaaa tcgcactgga gtgtggaaga 1560 ggcggctgtg gctgggacgcctgactcaac tggtccatga tacctgcgta gagaacgaga 1620 gcatatttct caattctctgccagggaatg aagctttttt aaggttgctt cggagcggct 1680 attttgaagt gtttgacgtgtttgtggtgc ctgagctgca tctggacact ccgggtcgag 1740 tggtcgccgc tcttgctctgctggtgttca tcctcaacga tttagacgct aattctgctt 1800 cttcaggctt tgattcaggttttctcgtgg accgtctctg cgtgccgct atg gct gaa 1858 Met Ala Glu 1 ggc cagggc gtt caa gat cac cca gag ctc cag gag cac ttc gca gcc 1906 Gly Gln GlyVal Gln Asp His Pro Glu Leu Gln Glu His Phe Ala Ala 5 10 15 ttc ctc gtcgcc cga caa gac gac cca gac tac cag cca gta gac ggg 1954 Phe Leu Val AlaArg Gln Asp Asp Pro Asp Tyr Gln Pro Val Asp Gly 20 25 30 35 gac agc ccaccc cgg gct agc ctg gag gag gct gaa cag agc agc act 2002 Asp Ser Pro ProArg Ala Ser Leu Glu Glu Ala Glu Gln Ser Ser Thr 40 45 50 cgt ttc gag cacatc agt tac cga gac gtg gtg gat gac ttc aat aga 2050 Arg Phe Glu His IleSer Tyr Arg Asp Val Val Asp Asp Phe Asn Arg 55 60 65 tgc cat gat gtt ttttat gag agg tac agt ttt gag gac ata aag agc 2098 Cys His Asp Val Phe TyrGlu Arg Tyr Ser Phe Glu Asp Ile Lys Ser 70 75 80 tac gag gct ttg cct gaggac aat ttg gag cag ctc ata gct atg cat 2146 Tyr Glu Ala Leu Pro Glu AspAsn Leu Glu Gln Leu Ile Ala Met His 85 90 95 gct aaa atc aag ctg ctg cccggt cgg gag tat gag ttg act caa cct 2194 Ala Lys Ile Lys Leu Leu Pro GlyArg Glu Tyr Glu Leu Thr Gln Pro 100 105 110 115 ttg aac ata aca tct tgcgcc tat gtg ctc gga aat ggg gct act att 2242 Leu Asn Ile Thr Ser Cys AlaTyr Val Leu Gly Asn Gly Ala Thr Ile 120 125 130 agg gta aca ggg gaa gcctcc ccg gct att aga gtg ggg gcc atg gcc 2290 Arg Val Thr Gly Glu Ala SerPro Ala Ile Arg Val Gly Ala Met Ala 135 140 145 gtg ggt ccg tgt gta acagga atg act ggg gtg act ttt gtg aat tgt 2338 Val Gly Pro Cys Val Thr GlyMet Thr Gly Val Thr Phe Val Asn Cys 150 155 160 agg ttt gag aga gag tcaaca att agg ggg tcc ctg ata cga gct tca 2386 Arg Phe Glu Arg Glu Ser ThrIle Arg Gly Ser Leu Ile Arg Ala Ser 165 170 175 act cac gtg ctg ttt catggc tgt tat ttt atg gga att atg ggc act 2434 Thr His Val Leu Phe His GlyCys Tyr Phe Met Gly Ile Met Gly Thr 180 185 190 195 tgt att gag gtg ggggcg gga gct tac att cgg ggt tgt gag ttt gtg 2482 Cys Ile Glu Val Gly AlaGly Ala Tyr Ile Arg Gly Cys Glu Phe Val 200 205 210 ggc tgt tac cgg ggaatc tgt tct act tct aac aga gat att aag gtg 2530 Gly Cys Tyr Arg Gly IleCys Ser Thr Ser Asn Arg Asp Ile Lys Val 215 220 225 agg cag tgc aac tttgac aaa tgc tta ctg ggt att act tgt aag ggg 2578 Arg Gln Cys Asn Phe AspLys Cys Leu Leu Gly Ile Thr Cys Lys Gly 230 235 240 gac tat cgt ctt tcggga aat gtg tgt tct gag act ttc tgc ttt gct 2626 Asp Tyr Arg Leu Ser GlyAsn Val Cys Ser Glu Thr Phe Cys Phe Ala 245 250 255 cat tta gag gga gagggt ttg gtt aaa aac aac aca gtc aag tcc cct 2674 His Leu Glu Gly Glu GlyLeu Val Lys Asn Asn Thr Val Lys Ser Pro 260 265 270 275 agt cgc tgg accagc gag tct ggc ttt tcc atg ata act tgt gca gac 2722 Ser Arg Trp Thr SerGlu Ser Gly Phe Ser Met Ile Thr Cys Ala Asp 280 285 290 ggc agg gtt acgcct ttg ggt tcc ctc cac att gtg ggc aac cgt tgt 2770 Gly Arg Val Thr ProLeu Gly Ser Leu His Ile Val Gly Asn Arg Cys 295 300 305 agg cgt tgg ccaacc atg cag ggg aat gtg ttt atc atg tct aaa ctg 2818 Arg Arg Trp Pro ThrMet Gln Gly Asn Val Phe Ile Met Ser Lys Leu 310 315 320 tat ctg ggc aacaga ata ggg act gta gcc ctg ccc cag tgt gct ttc 2866 Tyr Leu Gly Asn ArgIle Gly Thr Val Ala Leu Pro Gln Cys Ala Phe 325 330 335 tac aag tcc agcatt tgt ttg gag gag agg gcg aca aac aag ctg gtc 2914 Tyr Lys Ser Ser IleCys Leu Glu Glu Arg Ala Thr Asn Lys Leu Val 340 345 350 355 ttg gct tgtgct ttt gag aat aat gta ctg gtg tac aaa gtg ctg aga 2962 Leu Ala Cys AlaPhe Glu Asn Asn Val Leu Val Tyr Lys Val Leu Arg 360 365 370 cgg gag agtccc tca acc gtg aaa atg tgt gtt tgt ggg act tct cat 3010 Arg Glu Ser ProSer Thr Val Lys Met Cys Val Cys Gly Thr Ser His 375 380 385 tat gca aagcct ttg aca ctg gca att att tct tca gat att cgg gct 3058 Tyr Ala Lys ProLeu Thr Leu Ala Ile Ile Ser Ser Asp Ile Arg Ala 390 395 400 aat cga tacatg tac act gtg gac tca aca gag ttc act tct gac gag 3106 Asn Arg Tyr MetTyr Thr Val Asp Ser Thr Glu Phe Thr Ser Asp Glu 405 410 415 gattaaaagtggg cggggccaag aggggtataa ataggtgggg aggttgaggg 3159 Asp 420gagccgtagt ttctgttttt cccagactgg gggggacaac atggccgagg aagggcgcat 3219ttatgtgcct tatgtaactg cccgcctgcc caagtggtcg ggttcggtgc aggataagac 3279gggctcgaac atgttggggg gtgtggtact ccctcctaat tcacaggcgc accggacgga 3339gaccgtgggc actgaggcca ccagagacaa cctgcacgcc gagggagcgc gtcgtcctga 3399ggatcagacg ccctacatga tcttggtgga ggactctctg ggaggtttga agaggcgaat 3459ggacttgctg gaagaatcta atcagcagct gctggcaact ctcaaccgtc tccgtacagg 3519actcgctgcc tatgtgcagg ctaaccttgt gggcggccaa gttaacccct ttgtttaaat 3579aaaaatacac tcatacagtt tattatgctg tcaataaaat tctttatttt tcctgtgata 3639ataccgtgtc cagcgtgctc tgtcaataag ggtcctatgc atcctgagaa gggcctcata 3699tacccatggc atgaatatta agatacatgg gcataaggcc ctcagaaggg ttgaggtaga 3759gccactgcag actttcgtgg ggaggtaagg tgttgtaaat aatccagtca tactgactgt 3819gctgggcgtg gaaggaaaag atgtctttta gaagaagggt gattggcaaa gggaggctct 3879tagtgtaggt attgataaat ctgttcagtt gggagggatg cattcggggg ctaataaggt 3939ggagtttagc ctgaatctta aggttggcaa tgttgccccc taggtctttg cgaggattca 3999tgttgtgcag taccacaaaa acagagtagc ctgtgcattt ggggaattta tcatgaagct 4059 t4060 6 420 PRT Bovine adenovirus type 3 6 Met Ala Glu Gly Gln Gly ValGln Asp His Pro Glu Leu Gln Glu His 1 5 10 15 Phe Ala Ala Phe Leu ValAla Arg Gln Asp Asp Pro Asp Tyr Gln Pro 20 25 30 Val Asp Gly Asp Ser ProPro Arg Ala Ser Leu Glu Glu Ala Glu Gln 35 40 45 Ser Ser Thr Arg Phe GluHis Ile Ser Tyr Arg Asp Val Val Asp Asp 50 55 60 Phe Asn Arg Cys His AspVal Phe Tyr Glu Arg Tyr Ser Phe Glu Asp 65 70 75 80 Ile Lys Ser Tyr GluAla Leu Pro Glu Asp Asn Leu Glu Gln Leu Ile 85 90 95 Ala Met His Ala LysIle Lys Leu Leu Pro Gly Arg Glu Tyr Glu Leu 100 105 110 Thr Gln Pro LeuAsn Ile Thr Ser Cys Ala Tyr Val Leu Gly Asn Gly 115 120 125 Ala Thr IleArg Val Thr Gly Glu Ala Ser Pro Ala Ile Arg Val Gly 130 135 140 Ala MetAla Val Gly Pro Cys Val Thr Gly Met Thr Gly Val Thr Phe 145 150 155 160Val Asn Cys Arg Phe Glu Arg Glu Ser Thr Ile Arg Gly Ser Leu Ile 165 170175 Arg Ala Ser Thr His Val Leu Phe His Gly Cys Tyr Phe Met Gly Ile 180185 190 Met Gly Thr Cys Ile Glu Val Gly Ala Gly Ala Tyr Ile Arg Gly Cys195 200 205 Glu Phe Val Gly Cys Tyr Arg Gly Ile Cys Ser Thr Ser Asn ArgAsp 210 215 220 Ile Lys Val Arg Gln Cys Asn Phe Asp Lys Cys Leu Leu GlyIle Thr 225 230 235 240 Cys Lys Gly Asp Tyr Arg Leu Ser Gly Asn Val CysSer Glu Thr Phe 245 250 255 Cys Phe Ala His Leu Glu Gly Glu Gly Leu ValLys Asn Asn Thr Val 260 265 270 Lys Ser Pro Ser Arg Trp Thr Ser Glu SerGly Phe Ser Met Ile Thr 275 280 285 Cys Ala Asp Gly Arg Val Thr Pro LeuGly Ser Leu His Ile Val Gly 290 295 300 Asn Arg Cys Arg Arg Trp Pro ThrMet Gln Gly Asn Val Phe Ile Met 305 310 315 320 Ser Lys Leu Tyr Leu GlyAsn Arg Ile Gly Thr Val Ala Leu Pro Gln 325 330 335 Cys Ala Phe Tyr LysSer Ser Ile Cys Leu Glu Glu Arg Ala Thr Asn 340 345 350 Lys Leu Val LeuAla Cys Ala Phe Glu Asn Asn Val Leu Val Tyr Lys 355 360 365 Val Leu ArgArg Glu Ser Pro Ser Thr Val Lys Met Cys Val Cys Gly 370 375 380 Thr SerHis Tyr Ala Lys Pro Leu Thr Leu Ala Ile Ile Ser Ser Asp 385 390 395 400Ile Arg Ala Asn Arg Tyr Met Tyr Thr Val Asp Ser Thr Glu Phe Thr 405 410415 Ser Asp Glu Asp 420 7 4060 DNA Bovine adenovirus type 3 CDS(3200)..(3574) 7 catcatcaat aatctacagt acactgatgg cagcggtcca actgccaatcatttttgcca 60 cgtcatttat gacgcaacga cggcgagcgt ggcgtgctga cgtaactgtggggcggagcg 120 cgtcgcggag gcggcggcgc tgggcggggc tgagggcggc gggggcggcgcgcggggcgg 180 cgcgcggggc ggggcgaggg gcggagttcc gcacccgcta cgtcattttcagacattttt 240 tagcaaattt gcgccttttg caagcatttt tctcacattt caggtatttagagggcggat 300 ttttggtgtt cgtacttccg tgtcacatag ttcactgtca atcttcattacggcttagac 360 aaattttcgg cgtcttttcc gggtttatgt ccccggtcac ctttatgactgtgtgaaaca 420 cacctgccca ttgtttaccc ttggtcagtt ttttcgtctc ctagggtgggaacatcaaga 480 acaaatttgc cgagtaattg tgcacctttt tccgcgttag gactgcgtttcacacgtaga 540 cagacttttt ctcattttct cacactccgt cgtccgcttc agagctctgcgtcttcgctg 600 ccaccatgaa gtacctggtc ctcgttctca acgacggcat gagtcgaattgaaaaagctc 660 tcctgtgcag cgatggtgag gtggatttag agtgtcatga ggtacttcccccttctcccg 720 cgcctgtccc cgcttctgtg tcacccgtga ggagtcctcc tcctctgtctccggtgtttc 780 ctccgtctcc gccagccccg cttgtgaatc cagaggcgag ttcgctgctgcagcagtatc 840 ggagagagct gttagagagg agcctgctcc gaacggccga aggtcagcagcgtgcagtgt 900 gtccatgtga gcggttgccc gtggaagagg atgagtgtct gaatgccgtaaatttgctgt 960 ttcctgatcc ctggctaaat gcagctgaaa atgggggtga tatttttaagtctccggcta 1020 tgtctccaga accgtggata gatttgtcta gctacgatag cgatgtagaagaggtgacta 1080 gtcacttttt tctggattgc cctgaagacc ccagtcggga gtgttcatcttgtgggtttc 1140 atcaggctca aagcggaatt ccaggcatta tgtgcagttt gtgctacatgcgccaaacct 1200 accattgcat ctatagtaag tacattctgt aaaagaacat cttggtgatttctaggtatt 1260 gtttagggat taactgggtg gagtgatctt aatccggcat aaccaaatacatgttttcac 1320 aggtccagtt tctgaagagg aaatgtgagt catgttgact ttggcgcgcaagaggaaatg 1380 tgagtcatgt tgactttggc gcgccctacg gtgactttaa agcaatttgaggatcacttt 1440 tttgttagtc gctataaagt agtcacggag tcttcatgga tcacttaagcgttcttttgg 1500 atttgaagct gcttcgctct atcgtagcgg gggcttcaaa tcgcactggagtgtggaaga 1560 ggcggctgtg gctgggacgc ctgactcaac tggtccatga tacctgcgtagagaacgaga 1620 gcatatttct caattctctg ccagggaatg aagctttttt aaggttgcttcggagcggct 1680 attttgaagt gtttgacgtg tttgtggtgc ctgagctgca tctggacactccgggtcgag 1740 tggtcgccgc tcttgctctg ctggtgttca tcctcaacga tttagacgctaattctgctt 1800 cttcaggctt tgattcaggt tttctcgtgg accgtctctg cgtgccgctatggctgaagg 1860 ccagggcgtt caagatcacc cagagctcca ggagcacttc gcagccttcctcgtcgcccg 1920 acaagacgac ccagactacc agccagtaga cggggacagc ccaccccgggctagcctgga 1980 ggaggctgaa cagagcagca ctcgtttcga gcacatcagt taccgagacgtggtggatga 2040 cttcaataga tgccatgatg ttttttatga gaggtacagt tttgaggacataaagagcta 2100 cgaggctttg cctgaggaca atttggagca gctcatagct atgcatgctaaaatcaagct 2160 gctgcccggt cgggagtatg agttgactca acctttgaac ataacatcttgcgcctatgt 2220 gctcggaaat ggggctacta ttagggtaac aggggaagcc tccccggctattagagtggg 2280 ggccatggcc gtgggtccgt gtgtaacagg aatgactggg gtgacttttgtgaattgtag 2340 gtttgagaga gagtcaacaa ttagggggtc cctgatacga gcttcaactcacgtgctgtt 2400 tcatggctgt tattttatgg gaattatggg cacttgtatt gaggtgggggcgggagctta 2460 cattcggggt tgtgagtttg tgggctgtta ccggggaatc tgttctacttctaacagaga 2520 tattaaggtg aggcagtgca actttgacaa atgcttactg ggtattacttgtaaggggga 2580 ctatcgtctt tcgggaaatg tgtgttctga gactttctgc tttgctcatttagagggaga 2640 gggtttggtt aaaaacaaca cagtcaagtc ccctagtcgc tggaccagcgagtctggctt 2700 ttccatgata acttgtgcag acggcagggt tacgcctttg ggttccctccacattgtggg 2760 caaccgttgt aggcgttggc caaccatgca ggggaatgtg tttatcatgtctaaactgta 2820 tctgggcaac agaataggga ctgtagccct gccccagtgt gctttctacaagtccagcat 2880 ttgtttggag gagagggcga caaacaagct ggtcttggct tgtgcttttgagaataatgt 2940 actggtgtac aaagtgctga gacgggagag tccctcaacc gtgaaaatgtgtgtttgtgg 3000 gacttctcat tatgcaaagc ctttgacact ggcaattatt tcttcagatattcgggctaa 3060 tcgatacatg tacactgtgg actcaacaga gttcacttct gacgaggattaaaagtgggc 3120 ggggccaaga ggggtataaa taggtgggga ggttgagggg agccgtagtttctgtttttc 3180 ccagactggg ggggacaac atg gcc gag gaa ggg cgc att tat gtgcct tat 3232 Met Ala Glu Glu Gly Arg Ile Tyr Val Pro Tyr 1 5 10 gta actgcc cgc ctg ccc aag tgg tcg ggt tcg gtg cag gat aag acg 3280 Val Thr AlaArg Leu Pro Lys Trp Ser Gly Ser Val Gln Asp Lys Thr 15 20 25 ggc tcg aacatg ttg ggg ggt gtg gta ctc cct cct aat tca cag gcg 3328 Gly Ser Asn MetLeu Gly Gly Val Val Leu Pro Pro Asn Ser Gln Ala 30 35 40 cac cgg acg gagacc gtg ggc act gag gcc acc aga gac aac ctg cac 3376 His Arg Thr Glu ThrVal Gly Thr Glu Ala Thr Arg Asp Asn Leu His 45 50 55 gcc gag gga gcg cgtcgt cct gag gat cag acg ccc tac atg atc ttg 3424 Ala Glu Gly Ala Arg ArgPro Glu Asp Gln Thr Pro Tyr Met Ile Leu 60 65 70 75 gtg gag gac tct ctggga ggt ttg aag agg cga atg gac ttg ctg gaa 3472 Val Glu Asp Ser Leu GlyGly Leu Lys Arg Arg Met Asp Leu Leu Glu 80 85 90 gaa tct aat cag cag ctgctg gca act ctc aac cgt ctc cgt aca gga 3520 Glu Ser Asn Gln Gln Leu LeuAla Thr Leu Asn Arg Leu Arg Thr Gly 95 100 105 ctc gct gcc tat gtg caggct aac ctt gtg ggc ggc caa gtt aac ccc 3568 Leu Ala Ala Tyr Val Gln AlaAsn Leu Val Gly Gly Gln Val Asn Pro 110 115 120 ttt gtt taaataaaaatacactcata cagtttatta tgctgtcaat aaaattcttt 3624 Phe Val 125 atttttcctgtgataatacc gtgtccagcg tgctctgtca ataagggtcc tatgcatcct 3684 gagaagggcctcatataccc atggcatgaa tattaagata catgggcata aggccctcag 3744 aagggttgaggtagagccac tgcagacttt cgtggggagg taaggtgttg taaataatcc 3804 agtcatactgactgtgctgg gcgtggaagg aaaagatgtc ttttagaaga agggtgattg 3864 gcaaagggaggctcttagtg taggtattga taaatctgtt cagttgggag ggatgcattc 3924 gggggctaataaggtggagt ttagcctgaa tcttaaggtt ggcaatgttg ccccctaggt 3984 ctttgcgaggattcatgttg tgcagtacca caaaaacaga gtagcctgtg catttgggga 4044 atttatcatgaagctt 4060 8 125 PRT Bovine adenovirus type 3 8 Met Ala Glu Glu Gly ArgIle Tyr Val Pro Tyr Val Thr Ala Arg Leu 1 5 10 15 Pro Lys Trp Ser GlySer Val Gln Asp Lys Thr Gly Ser Asn Met Leu 20 25 30 Gly Gly Val Val LeuPro Pro Asn Ser Gln Ala His Arg Thr Glu Thr 35 40 45 Val Gly Thr Glu AlaThr Arg Asp Asn Leu His Ala Glu Gly Ala Arg 50 55 60 Arg Pro Glu Asp GlnThr Pro Tyr Met Ile Leu Val Glu Asp Ser Leu 65 70 75 80 Gly Gly Leu LysArg Arg Met Asp Leu Leu Glu Glu Ser Asn Gln Gln 85 90 95 Leu Leu Ala ThrLeu Asn Arg Leu Arg Thr Gly Leu Ala Ala Tyr Val 100 105 110 Gln Ala AsnLeu Val Gly Gly Gln Val Asn Pro Phe Val 115 120 125 9 54 PRT Humanadenovirus type 5 9 Glu Glu Phe Val Leu Asp Tyr Val Glu His Pro Gly HisGly Cys Arg 1 5 10 15 Ser Cys His Tyr His Arg Arg Asn Thr Gly Asp ProAsp Ile Met Cys 20 25 30 Ser Leu Cys Tyr Met Arg Thr Cys Gly Met Phe ValTyr Ser Pro Val 35 40 45 Ser Glu Pro Glu Pro Glu 50 10 13 PRT Humanadenovirus type 5 10 Ile Asp Leu Thr Cys His Glu Ala Gly Phe Pro Pro Ser1 5 10 11 19 PRT Human adenovirus type 5 11 Leu Asp Phe Ser Thr Pro GlyArg Ala Ala Ala Ala Val Ala Phe Leu 1 5 10 15 Ser Phe Ile 12 7 PRT Humanadenovirus type 5 12 Gln Ser Ser Asn Ser Thr Ser 1 5 13 347 PRT Humanadenovirus type 5 13 Gln Lys Tyr Ser Ile Glu Gln Leu Thr Thr Tyr Trp LeuGln Pro Gly 1 5 10 15 Asp Asp Phe Glu Glu Ala Ile Arg Val Tyr Ala LysVal Ala Leu Arg 20 25 30 Pro Asp Cys Lys Tyr Lys Ile Ser Lys Leu Val AsnIle Arg Asn Cys 35 40 45 Cys Tyr Ile Ser Gly Asn Gly Ala Glu Val Glu IleAsp Thr Glu Asp 50 55 60 Arg Val Ala Phe Arg Cys Ser Met Ile Asn Met TrpPro Gly Val Leu 65 70 75 80 Gly Met Asp Gly Val Val Ile Met Asn Val ArgPhe Thr Gly Pro Asn 85 90 95 Phe Ser Gly Thr Val Phe Leu Ala Asn Thr AsnLeu Ile Leu His Gly 100 105 110 Val Ser Phe Tyr Gly Phe Asn Asn Thr CysVal Glu Ala Trp Thr Asp 115 120 125 Val Arg Val Arg Gly Cys Ala Phe TyrCys Cys Trp Lys Gly Val Val 130 135 140 Cys Arg Pro Lys Ser Arg Ala SerIle Lys Lys Cys Leu Phe Glu Arg 145 150 155 160 Cys Thr Leu Gly Ile LeuSer Glu Gly Asn Ser Arg Val Arg His Asn 165 170 175 Val Ala Ser Asp CysGly Cys Phe Met Leu Val Lys Ser Val Ala Val 180 185 190 Ile Lys His AsnMet Val Cys Gly Asn Cys Glu Asp Arg Ala Ser Gln 195 200 205 Met Leu ThrCys Ser Asp Gly Asn Cys His Leu Leu Lys Thr Ile His 210 215 220 Val AlaSer His Ser Arg Lys Ala Trp Pro Val Phe Glu His Asn Ile 225 230 235 240Leu His Arg Cys Ser Leu His Leu Gly Asn Arg Arg Gly Val Phe Leu 245 250255 Pro Tyr Gln Cys Asn Leu Ser His Thr Lys Ile Leu Leu Glu Pro Glu 260265 270 Ser Met Ser Lys Val Asn Leu Asn Gly Val Phe Asp Met Thr Met Lys275 280 285 Ile Trp Lys Val Leu Arg Tyr Asp Glu Thr Arg Thr Arg Cys ArgPro 290 295 300 Cys Glu Cys Gly Gly Lys His Ile Arg Asn Gln Pro Val MetLeu Asp 305 310 315 320 Val Thr Glu Glu Leu Arg Pro Asp His Leu Val LeuAla Cys His Arg 325 330 335 Ala Glu Phe Gly Ser Ser Asp Glu Asp Thr Asp340 345 14 140 PRT Human adenovirus type 5 14 Met Ser Thr Asn Ser PheAsp Gly Ser Ile Val Ser Ser Tyr Leu Thr 1 5 10 15 Thr Arg Met Pro ProTrp Ala Gly Val Arg Gln Asn Val Met Gly Ser 20 25 30 Ser Ile Asp Gly ArgPro Val Leu Pro Ala Asn Ser Thr Thr Leu Thr 35 40 45 Tyr Glu Thr Val SerGly Thr Pro Leu Glu Thr Ala Ala Ser Ala Ala 50 55 60 Ala Ser Ala Ala AlaAla Thr Ala Arg Gly Ile Val Thr Asp Phe Ala 65 70 75 80 Phe Leu Ser ProLeu Ala Ser Ser Ala Ala Ser Arg Ser Ser Ala Arg 85 90 95 Asp Asp Lys LeuThr Ala Leu Leu Ala Gln Leu Asp Ser Leu Thr Arg 100 105 110 Glu Leu AsnVal Val Ser Gln Gln Leu Leu Asp Leu Arg Gln Gln Val 115 120 125 Ser AlaLeu Lys Ala Ser Ser Pro Pro Asn Ala Val 130 135 140 15 5100 DNA Bovineadenovirus type 3 CDS (2)..(418) 15 c ctc atc aaa caa ccc gtg gtg ggcacc acc cac gtg gaa atg cct cgc 49 Leu Ile Lys Gln Pro Val Val Gly ThrThr His Val Glu Met Pro Arg 1 5 10 15 aac gaa gtc cta gaa caa cat ctgacc tca cat ggc gct caa atc gcg 97 Asn Glu Val Leu Glu Gln His Leu ThrSer His Gly Ala Gln Ile Ala 20 25 30 ggc gga ggc gct gcg ggc gat tac tttaaa agc ccc act tca gct cga 145 Gly Gly Gly Ala Ala Gly Asp Tyr Phe LysSer Pro Thr Ser Ala Arg 35 40 45 acc ctt atc ccg ctc acc gcc tcc tgc ttaaga cca gat gga gtc ttt 193 Thr Leu Ile Pro Leu Thr Ala Ser Cys Leu ArgPro Asp Gly Val Phe 50 55 60 caa cta gga gga ggc tcg cgt tca tct ttc aacccc ctg caa aca gat 241 Gln Leu Gly Gly Gly Ser Arg Ser Ser Phe Asn ProLeu Gln Thr Asp 65 70 75 80 ttt gcc ttc cac gcc ctg ccc tcc aga ccg cgccac ggg ggc ata gga 289 Phe Ala Phe His Ala Leu Pro Ser Arg Pro Arg HisGly Gly Ile Gly 85 90 95 tcc agg cag ttt gta gag gaa ttt gtg ccc gcc gtctac ctc aac ccc 337 Ser Arg Gln Phe Val Glu Glu Phe Val Pro Ala Val TyrLeu Asn Pro 100 105 110 tac tcg gga ccg ccg gac tct tat ccg gac cag tttata cgc cac tac 385 Tyr Ser Gly Pro Pro Asp Ser Tyr Pro Asp Gln Phe IleArg His Tyr 115 120 125 aac gtg tac agc aac tct gtg agc ggt tat agctgagattgta agactctcct 438 Asn Val Tyr Ser Asn Ser Val Ser Gly Tyr Ser130 135 atctgtctct gtgctgcttt tccgcttcaa gccccacaag catgaaggggtttctgctca 498 tcttcagcct gcttgtgcat tgtcccctaa ttcatgttgg gaccattagcttctatgctg 558 caaggcccgg gtctgagcct aacgcgactt atgtttgtga ctatggaagcgagtcagatt 618 acaaccccac cacggttctg tggttggctc gagagaccga tggctcctggatctctgttc 678 ttttccgtca caacggctcc tcaactgcag cccccggggt cgtcgcgcactttactgacc 738 acaacagcag cattgtggtg ccccagtatt acctcctcaa caactcactctctaagctct 798 gctgctcata ccggcacaac gagcgttctc agtttacctg caaacaagctgacgtcccta 858 cctgtcacga gcccggcaag ccgctcaccc tccgcgtctc ccccgcgctgggaactgccc 918 accaagcagt cacttggttt tttcaaaatg tacccatagc tactgtttaccgaccttggg 978 gcaatgtaac ttggttttgt cctcccttca tgtgtacctt taatgtcagcctgaactccc 1038 tacttattta caacttttct gacaaaaccg gggggcaata cacagctctcatgcactccg 1098 gacctgcttc cctctttcag ctctttaagc caacgacttg tgtcaccaaggtggaggacc 1158 cgccgtatgc caacgacccg gcctcgcctg tgtggcgccc actgctttttgccttcgtcc 1218 tctgcaccgg ctgcgcggtg ttgttaaccg ccttcggtcc atcgattctatccggtaccc 1278 gaaagcttat ctcagcccgc ttttggagtc ccgagcccta taccaccctccactaacagt 1338 ccccccatgg agccagacgg agttcatgcc gagcagcagt ttatcctcaatcagatttcc 1398 tgcgccaaca ctgccctcca gcgtcaaagg gaggaactag cttcccttgtcatgttgcat 1458 gcctgtaagc gtggcctctt ttgtccagtc aaaacttaca agctcagcctcaacgcctcg 1518 gccagcgagc acagcctgca ctttgaaaaa agtccctccc gattcaccctggtcaacact 1578 cacgccggag cttctgtgcg agtggcccta caccaccagg gagcttccggcagcatccgc 1638 tgttcctgtt cccacgccga gtgcctcccc gtcctcctca agaccctctgtgcctttaac 1698 tttttagatt agctgaaagc aaatataaaa tggtgtgctt accgtaattctgttttgact 1758 tgtgtgcttg atttctcccc ctgcgccgta atccagtgcc cctcttcaaaactctcgtac 1818 cctatgcgat tcgcataggc atattttcta aaagctctga agtcaacatcactctcaaac 1878 acttctccgt tgtaggttac tttcatctac agataaagtc atccaccggttaacatcatg 1938 aagagaagtg tgccccagga ctttaatctt gtgtatccgt acaaggctaagaggcccaac 1998 atcatgccgc ccttttttga ccgcaatggc tttgttgaaa accaagaagccacgctagcc 2058 atgcttgtgg aaaagccgct cacgttcgac aaggaaggtg cgctgaccctgggcgtcgga 2118 cgcggcatcc gcattaaccc cgcggggctt ctggagacaa acgacctcgcgtccgctgtc 2178 ttcccaccgc tggcctccga tgaggccggc aacgtcacgc tcaacatgtctgacgggcta 2238 tatactaagg acaacaagct agctgtcaaa gtaggtcccg ggctgtccctcgactccaat 2298 aatgctctcc aggtccacac aggcgacggg ctcacggtaa ccgatgacaaggtgtctcta 2358 aatacccaag ctcccctctc gaccaccagc gcgggcctct ccctacttctgggtcccagc 2418 ctccacttag gtgaggagga acgactaaca gtaaacaccg gagcgggcctccaaattagc 2478 aataacgctc tggccgtaaa agtaggttca ggtatcaccg tagatgctcaaaaccagctc 2538 gctgcatccc tgggggacgg tctagaaagc agagataata aaactgtcgttaaggctggg 2598 cccggactta caataactaa tcaagctctt actgttgcta ccgggaacggccttcaggtc 2658 aacccggaag ggcaactgca gctaaacatt actgccggtc agggcctcaactttgcaaac 2718 aacagcctcg ccgtggagct gggctcgggc ctgcattttc cccctggccaaaaccaagta 2778 agcctttatc ccggagatgg aatagacatc cgagataata gggtgactgtgcccgctggg 2838 ccaggcctga gaatgctcaa ccaccaactt gccgtagctt ccggagacggtttagaagtc 2898 cacagcgaca ccctccggtt aaagctctcc cacggcctga catttgaaaatggcgccgta 2958 cgagcaaaac taggaccagg acttggcaca gacgactctg gtcggtccgtggttcgcaca 3018 ggtcgaggac ttagagttgc aaacggccaa gtccagatct tcagcggaagaggcaccgcc 3078 atcggcactg atagcagcct cactctcaac atccgggcgc ccctacaattttctggaccc 3138 gccttgactg ctagtttgca aggcagtggt ccgattactt acaacagcaacaatggcact 3198 ttcggtctct ctataggccc cggaatgtgg gtagaccaaa acagacttcaggtaaaccca 3258 ggcgctggtt tagtcttcca aggaaacaac cttgtcccaa accttgcggatccgctggct 3318 atttccgaca gcaaaattag tctcagtctc ggtcccggcc tgacccaagcttccaacgcc 3378 ctgactttaa gtttaggaaa cgggcttgaa ttctccaatc aagccgttgctataaaagcg 3438 ggccggggct tacgctttga gtcttcctca caagctttag agagcagcctcacagtcgga 3498 aatggcttaa cgcttaccga tactgtgatc cgccccaacc taggggacggcctagaggtc 3558 agagacaata aaatcattgt taagctgggc gcgaatcttc gttttgaaaacggagccgta 3618 accgccggca ccgttaaccc ttctgcgccc gaggcaccac caactctcactgcagaacca 3678 cccctccgag cctccaactc ccatcttcaa ctgtccctat cggagggcttggttgtgcat 3738 aacaacgccc ttgctctcca actgggagac ggcatggaag taaatcagcacggacttact 3798 ttaagagtag gctcgggttt gcaaatgcgt gacggcattt taacagttacacccagcggc 3858 actcctattg agcccagact gactgcccca ctgactcaga cagagaatggaatcgggctc 3918 gctctcggcg ccggcttgga attagacgag agcgcgctcc aagtaaaagttgggcccggc 3978 atgcgcctga accctgtaga aaagtatgta accctgctcc tgggtcctggccttagtttt 4038 gggcagccgg ccaacaggac aaattatgat gtgcgcgttt ctgtggagccccccatggtt 4098 ttcggacagc gtggtcagct cacattttta gtgggtcacg gactacacattcaaaattcc 4158 aaacttcagc tcaatttggg acaaggcctc agaactgacc ccgtcaccaaccagctggaa 4218 gtgcccctcg gtcaaggttt ggaaattgca gacgaatccc aggttagggttaaattgggc 4278 gatggcctgc agtttgattc acaagctcgc atcactaccg ctcctaacatggtcactgaa 4338 actctgtgga ccggaacagg cagtaatgct aatgttacat ggcggggctacactgccccc 4398 ggcagcaaac tctttttgag tctcactcgg ttcagcactg gtctagttttaggaaacatg 4458 actattgaca gcaatgcatc ctttgggcaa tacattaacg cgggacacgaacagatcgaa 4518 tgctttatat tgttggacaa tcagggtaac ctaaaagaag gatctaacttgcaaggcact 4578 tgggaagtga agaacaaccc ctctgcttcc aaagctgctt ttttgccttccaccgcccta 4638 taccccatcc tcaacgaaag ccgagggagt cttcctggaa aaaatcttgtgggcatgcaa 4698 gccatactgg gaggcggggg cacttgcact gtgatagcca ccctcaatggcagacgcagc 4758 aacaactatc ccgcgggcca gtccataatt ttcgtgtggc aagaattcaacaccatagcc 4818 cgccaacctc tgaaccactc tacacttact ttttcttact ggacttaaataagttggaaa 4878 taaagagtta aactgaatgt ttaagtgcaa cagactttta ttggttttggctcacaacaa 4938 attacaacag catagacaag tcataccggt caaacaacac aggctctcgaaaacgggcta 4998 accgctccaa gaatctgtca cgcagacgag caagtcctaa atgttttttcactctcttcg 5058 gggccaagtt cagcatgtat cggattttct gcttacacct tt 5100 16139 PRT Bovine adenovirus type 3 16 Leu Ile Lys Gln Pro Val Val Gly ThrThr His Val Glu Met Pro Arg 1 5 10 15 Asn Glu Val Leu Glu Gln His LeuThr Ser His Gly Ala Gln Ile Ala 20 25 30 Gly Gly Gly Ala Ala Gly Asp TyrPhe Lys Ser Pro Thr Ser Ala Arg 35 40 45 Thr Leu Ile Pro Leu Thr Ala SerCys Leu Arg Pro Asp Gly Val Phe 50 55 60 Gln Leu Gly Gly Gly Ser Arg SerSer Phe Asn Pro Leu Gln Thr Asp 65 70 75 80 Phe Ala Phe His Ala Leu ProSer Arg Pro Arg His Gly Gly Ile Gly 85 90 95 Ser Arg Gln Phe Val Glu GluPhe Val Pro Ala Val Tyr Leu Asn Pro 100 105 110 Tyr Ser Gly Pro Pro AspSer Tyr Pro Asp Gln Phe Ile Arg His Tyr 115 120 125 Asn Val Tyr Ser AsnSer Val Ser Gly Tyr Ser 130 135 17 5100 DNA Bovine adenovirus type 3 CDS(408)..(1331) 17 cctcatcaaa caacccgtgg tgggcaccac ccacgtggaa atgcctcgcaacgaagtcct 60 agaacaacat ctgacctcac atggcgctca aatcgcgggc ggaggcgctgcgggcgatta 120 ctttaaaagc cccacttcag ctcgaaccct tatcccgctc accgcctcctgcttaagacc 180 agatggagtc tttcaactag gaggaggctc gcgttcatct ttcaaccccctgcaaacaga 240 ttttgccttc cacgccctgc cctccagacc gcgccacggg ggcataggatccaggcagtt 300 tgtagaggaa tttgtgcccg ccgtctacct caacccctac tcgggaccgccggactctta 360 tccggaccag tttatacgcc actacaacgt gtacagcaac tctgtga gcggtt ata 416 Ala Val Ile 1 gct gag att gta aga ctc tcc tat ctg tct ctgtgc tgc ttt tcc gct 464 Ala Glu Ile Val Arg Leu Ser Tyr Leu Ser Leu CysCys Phe Ser Ala 5 10 15 tca agc ccc aca agc atg aag ggg ttt ctg ctc atcttc agc ctg ctt 512 Ser Ser Pro Thr Ser Met Lys Gly Phe Leu Leu Ile PheSer Leu Leu 20 25 30 35 gtg cat tgt ccc cta att cat gtt ggg acc att agcttc tat gct gca 560 Val His Cys Pro Leu Ile His Val Gly Thr Ile Ser PheTyr Ala Ala 40 45 50 agg ccc ggg tct gag cct aac gcg act tat gtt tgt gactat gga agc 608 Arg Pro Gly Ser Glu Pro Asn Ala Thr Tyr Val Cys Asp TyrGly Ser 55 60 65 gag tca gat tac aac ccc acc acg gtt ctg tgg ttg gct cgagag acc 656 Glu Ser Asp Tyr Asn Pro Thr Thr Val Leu Trp Leu Ala Arg GluThr 70 75 80 gat ggc tcc tgg atc tct gtt ctt ttc cgt cac aac ggc tcc tcaact 704 Asp Gly Ser Trp Ile Ser Val Leu Phe Arg His Asn Gly Ser Ser Thr85 90 95 gca gcc ccc ggg gtc gtc gcg cac ttt act gac cac aac agc agc att752 Ala Ala Pro Gly Val Val Ala His Phe Thr Asp His Asn Ser Ser Ile 100105 110 115 gtg gtg ccc cag tat tac ctc ctc aac aac tca ctc tct aag ctctgc 800 Val Val Pro Gln Tyr Tyr Leu Leu Asn Asn Ser Leu Ser Lys Leu Cys120 125 130 tgc tca tac cgg cac aac gag cgt tct cag ttt acc tgc aaa caagct 848 Cys Ser Tyr Arg His Asn Glu Arg Ser Gln Phe Thr Cys Lys Gln Ala135 140 145 gac gtc cct acc tgt cac gag ccc ggc aag ccg ctc acc ctc cgcgtc 896 Asp Val Pro Thr Cys His Glu Pro Gly Lys Pro Leu Thr Leu Arg Val150 155 160 tcc ccc gcg ctg gga act gcc cac caa gca gtc act tgg ttt tttcaa 944 Ser Pro Ala Leu Gly Thr Ala His Gln Ala Val Thr Trp Phe Phe Gln165 170 175 aat gta ccc ata gct act gtt tac cga cct tgg ggc aat gta acttgg 992 Asn Val Pro Ile Ala Thr Val Tyr Arg Pro Trp Gly Asn Val Thr Trp180 185 190 195 ttt tgt cct ccc ttc atg tgt acc ttt aat gtc agc ctg aactcc cta 1040 Phe Cys Pro Pro Phe Met Cys Thr Phe Asn Val Ser Leu Asn SerLeu 200 205 210 ctt att tac aac ttt tct gac aaa acc ggg ggg caa tac acagct ctc 1088 Leu Ile Tyr Asn Phe Ser Asp Lys Thr Gly Gly Gln Tyr Thr AlaLeu 215 220 225 atg cac tcc gga cct gct tcc ctc ttt cag ctc ttt aag ccaacg act 1136 Met His Ser Gly Pro Ala Ser Leu Phe Gln Leu Phe Lys Pro ThrThr 230 235 240 tgt gtc acc aag gtg gag gac ccg ccg tat gcc aac gac ccggcc tcg 1184 Cys Val Thr Lys Val Glu Asp Pro Pro Tyr Ala Asn Asp Pro AlaSer 245 250 255 cct gtg tgg cgc cca ctg ctt ttt gcc ttc gtc ctc tgc accggc tgc 1232 Pro Val Trp Arg Pro Leu Leu Phe Ala Phe Val Leu Cys Thr GlyCys 260 265 270 275 gcg gtg ttg tta acc gcc ttc ggt cca tcg att cta tccggt acc cga 1280 Ala Val Leu Leu Thr Ala Phe Gly Pro Ser Ile Leu Ser GlyThr Arg 280 285 290 aag ctt atc tca gcc cgc ttt tgg agt ccc gag ccc tatacc acc ctc 1328 Lys Leu Ile Ser Ala Arg Phe Trp Ser Pro Glu Pro Tyr ThrThr Leu 295 300 305 cac taacagtccc cccatggagc cagacggagt tcatgccgagcagcagttta 1381 His tcctcaatca gatttcctgc gccaacactg ccctccagcgtcaaagggag gaactagctt 1441 cccttgtcat gttgcatgcc tgtaagcgtg gcctcttttgtccagtcaaa acttacaagc 1501 tcagcctcaa cgcctcggcc agcgagcaca gcctgcactttgaaaaaagt ccctcccgat 1561 tcaccctggt caacactcac gccggagctt ctgtgcgagtggccctacac caccagggag 1621 cttccggcag catccgctgt tcctgttccc acgccgagtgcctccccgtc ctcctcaaga 1681 ccctctgtgc ctttaacttt ttagattagc tgaaagcaaatataaaatgg tgtgcttacc 1741 gtaattctgt tttgacttgt gtgcttgatt tctccccctgcgccgtaatc cagtgcccct 1801 cttcaaaact ctcgtaccct atgcgattcg cataggcatattttctaaaa gctctgaagt 1861 caacatcact ctcaaacact tctccgttgt aggttactttcatctacaga taaagtcatc 1921 caccggttaa catcatgaag agaagtgtgc cccaggactttaatcttgtg tatccgtaca 1981 aggctaagag gcccaacatc atgccgccct tttttgaccgcaatggcttt gttgaaaacc 2041 aagaagccac gctagccatg cttgtggaaa agccgctcacgttcgacaag gaaggtgcgc 2101 tgaccctggg cgtcggacgc ggcatccgca ttaaccccgcggggcttctg gagacaaacg 2161 acctcgcgtc cgctgtcttc ccaccgctgg cctccgatgaggccggcaac gtcacgctca 2221 acatgtctga cgggctatat actaaggaca acaagctagctgtcaaagta ggtcccgggc 2281 tgtccctcga ctccaataat gctctccagg tccacacaggcgacgggctc acggtaaccg 2341 atgacaaggt gtctctaaat acccaagctc ccctctcgaccaccagcgcg ggcctctccc 2401 tacttctggg tcccagcctc cacttaggtg aggaggaacgactaacagta aacaccggag 2461 cgggcctcca aattagcaat aacgctctgg ccgtaaaagtaggttcaggt atcaccgtag 2521 atgctcaaaa ccagctcgct gcatccctgg gggacggtctagaaagcaga gataataaaa 2581 ctgtcgttaa ggctgggccc ggacttacaa taactaatcaagctcttact gttgctaccg 2641 ggaacggcct tcaggtcaac ccggaagggc aactgcagctaaacattact gccggtcagg 2701 gcctcaactt tgcaaacaac agcctcgccg tggagctgggctcgggcctg cattttcccc 2761 ctggccaaaa ccaagtaagc ctttatcccg gagatggaatagacatccga gataataggg 2821 tgactgtgcc cgctgggcca ggcctgagaa tgctcaaccaccaacttgcc gtagcttccg 2881 gagacggttt agaagtccac agcgacaccc tccggttaaagctctcccac ggcctgacat 2941 ttgaaaatgg cgccgtacga gcaaaactag gaccaggacttggcacagac gactctggtc 3001 ggtccgtggt tcgcacaggt cgaggactta gagttgcaaacggccaagtc cagatcttca 3061 gcggaagagg caccgccatc ggcactgata gcagcctcactctcaacatc cgggcgcccc 3121 tacaattttc tggacccgcc ttgactgcta gtttgcaaggcagtggtccg attacttaca 3181 acagcaacaa tggcactttc ggtctctcta taggccccggaatgtgggta gaccaaaaca 3241 gacttcaggt aaacccaggc gctggtttag tcttccaaggaaacaacctt gtcccaaacc 3301 ttgcggatcc gctggctatt tccgacagca aaattagtctcagtctcggt cccggcctga 3361 cccaagcttc caacgccctg actttaagtt taggaaacgggcttgaattc tccaatcaag 3421 ccgttgctat aaaagcgggc cggggcttac gctttgagtcttcctcacaa gctttagaga 3481 gcagcctcac agtcggaaat ggcttaacgc ttaccgatactgtgatccgc cccaacctag 3541 gggacggcct agaggtcaga gacaataaaa tcattgttaagctgggcgcg aatcttcgtt 3601 ttgaaaacgg agccgtaacc gccggcaccg ttaacccttctgcgcccgag gcaccaccaa 3661 ctctcactgc agaaccaccc ctccgagcct ccaactcccatcttcaactg tccctatcgg 3721 agggcttggt tgtgcataac aacgcccttg ctctccaactgggagacggc atggaagtaa 3781 atcagcacgg acttacttta agagtaggct cgggtttgcaaatgcgtgac ggcattttaa 3841 cagttacacc cagcggcact cctattgagc ccagactgactgccccactg actcagacag 3901 agaatggaat cgggctcgct ctcggcgccg gcttggaattagacgagagc gcgctccaag 3961 taaaagttgg gcccggcatg cgcctgaacc ctgtagaaaagtatgtaacc ctgctcctgg 4021 gtcctggcct tagttttggg cagccggcca acaggacaaattatgatgtg cgcgtttctg 4081 tggagccccc catggttttc ggacagcgtg gtcagctcacatttttagtg ggtcacggac 4141 tacacattca aaattccaaa cttcagctca atttgggacaaggcctcaga actgaccccg 4201 tcaccaacca gctggaagtg cccctcggtc aaggtttggaaattgcagac gaatcccagg 4261 ttagggttaa attgggcgat ggcctgcagt ttgattcacaagctcgcatc actaccgctc 4321 ctaacatggt cactgaaact ctgtggaccg gaacaggcagtaatgctaat gttacatggc 4381 ggggctacac tgcccccggc agcaaactct ttttgagtctcactcggttc agcactggtc 4441 tagttttagg aaacatgact attgacagca atgcatcctttgggcaatac attaacgcgg 4501 gacacgaaca gatcgaatgc tttatattgt tggacaatcagggtaaccta aaagaaggat 4561 ctaacttgca aggcacttgg gaagtgaaga acaacccctctgcttccaaa gctgcttttt 4621 tgccttccac cgccctatac cccatcctca acgaaagccgagggagtctt cctggaaaaa 4681 atcttgtggg catgcaagcc atactgggag gcgggggcacttgcactgtg atagccaccc 4741 tcaatggcag acgcagcaac aactatcccg cgggccagtccataattttc gtgtggcaag 4801 aattcaacac catagcccgc caacctctga accactctacacttactttt tcttactgga 4861 cttaaataag ttggaaataa agagttaaac tgaatgtttaagtgcaacag acttttattg 4921 gttttggctc acaacaaatt acaacagcat agacaagtcataccggtcaa acaacacagg 4981 ctctcgaaaa cgggctaacc gctccaagaa tctgtcacgcagacgagcaa gtcctaaatg 5041 ttttttcact ctcttcgggg ccaagttcag catgtatcggattttctgct tacaccttt 5100 18 308 PRT Bovine adenovirus type 3 18 Ala ValIle Ala Glu Ile Val Arg Leu Ser Tyr Leu Ser Leu Cys Cys 1 5 10 15 PheSer Ala Ser Ser Pro Thr Ser Met Lys Gly Phe Leu Leu Ile Phe 20 25 30 SerLeu Leu Val His Cys Pro Leu Ile His Val Gly Thr Ile Ser Phe 35 40 45 TyrAla Ala Arg Pro Gly Ser Glu Pro Asn Ala Thr Tyr Val Cys Asp 50 55 60 TyrGly Ser Glu Ser Asp Tyr Asn Pro Thr Thr Val Leu Trp Leu Ala 65 70 75 80Arg Glu Thr Asp Gly Ser Trp Ile Ser Val Leu Phe Arg His Asn Gly 85 90 95Ser Ser Thr Ala Ala Pro Gly Val Val Ala His Phe Thr Asp His Asn 100 105110 Ser Ser Ile Val Val Pro Gln Tyr Tyr Leu Leu Asn Asn Ser Leu Ser 115120 125 Lys Leu Cys Cys Ser Tyr Arg His Asn Glu Arg Ser Gln Phe Thr Cys130 135 140 Lys Gln Ala Asp Val Pro Thr Cys His Glu Pro Gly Lys Pro LeuThr 145 150 155 160 Leu Arg Val Ser Pro Ala Leu Gly Thr Ala His Gln AlaVal Thr Trp 165 170 175 Phe Phe Gln Asn Val Pro Ile Ala Thr Val Tyr ArgPro Trp Gly Asn 180 185 190 Val Thr Trp Phe Cys Pro Pro Phe Met Cys ThrPhe Asn Val Ser Leu 195 200 205 Asn Ser Leu Leu Ile Tyr Asn Phe Ser AspLys Thr Gly Gly Gln Tyr 210 215 220 Thr Ala Leu Met His Ser Gly Pro AlaSer Leu Phe Gln Leu Phe Lys 225 230 235 240 Pro Thr Thr Cys Val Thr LysVal Glu Asp Pro Pro Tyr Ala Asn Asp 245 250 255 Pro Ala Ser Pro Val TrpArg Pro Leu Leu Phe Ala Phe Val Leu Cys 260 265 270 Thr Gly Cys Ala ValLeu Leu Thr Ala Phe Gly Pro Ser Ile Leu Ser 275 280 285 Gly Thr Arg LysLeu Ile Ser Ala Arg Phe Trp Ser Pro Glu Pro Tyr 290 295 300 Thr Thr LeuHis 305 19 5100 DNA Bovine adenovirus type 3 CDS (529)..(954) 19cctcatcaaa caacccgtgg tgggcaccac ccacgtggaa atgcctcgca acgaagtcct 60agaacaacat ctgacctcac atggcgctca aatcgcgggc ggaggcgctg cgggcgatta 120ctttaaaagc cccacttcag ctcgaaccct tatcccgctc accgcctcct gcttaagacc 180agatggagtc tttcaactag gaggaggctc gcgttcatct ttcaaccccc tgcaaacaga 240ttttgccttc cacgccctgc cctccagacc gcgccacggg ggcataggat ccaggcagtt 300tgtagaggaa tttgtgcccg ccgtctacct caacccctac tcgggaccgc cggactctta 360tccggaccag tttatacgcc actacaacgt gtacagcaac tctgtgagcg gttatagctg 420agattgtaag actctcctat ctgtctctgt gctgcttttc cgcttcaagc cccacaagca 480tgaaggggtt tctgctcatc ttcagcctgc ttgtgcattg tcccctaa ttc atg ttg 537 PheMet Leu 1 gga cca tta gct tct atg ctg caa ggc ccg ggt ctg agc cta acgcga 585 Gly Pro Leu Ala Ser Met Leu Gln Gly Pro Gly Leu Ser Leu Thr Arg5 10 15 ctt atg ttt gtg act atg gaa gcg agt cag att aca acc cca cca cgg633 Leu Met Phe Val Thr Met Glu Ala Ser Gln Ile Thr Thr Pro Pro Arg 2025 30 35 ttc tgt ggt tgg ctc gag aga ccg atg gct cct gga tct ctg ttc ttt681 Phe Cys Gly Trp Leu Glu Arg Pro Met Ala Pro Gly Ser Leu Phe Phe 4045 50 tcc gtc aca acg gct cct caa ctg cag ccc ccg ggg tcg tcg cgc act729 Ser Val Thr Thr Ala Pro Gln Leu Gln Pro Pro Gly Ser Ser Arg Thr 5560 65 tta ctg acc aca aca gca gca ttg tgg tgc ccc agt att acc tcc tca777 Leu Leu Thr Thr Thr Ala Ala Leu Trp Cys Pro Ser Ile Thr Ser Ser 7075 80 aca act cac tct cta agc tct gct gct cat acc ggc aca acg agc gtt825 Thr Thr His Ser Leu Ser Ser Ala Ala His Thr Gly Thr Thr Ser Val 8590 95 ctc agt tta cct gca aac aag ctg acg tcc cta cct gtc acg agc ccg873 Leu Ser Leu Pro Ala Asn Lys Leu Thr Ser Leu Pro Val Thr Ser Pro 100105 110 115 gca agc cgc tca ccc tcc gcg tct ccc ccg cgc tgg gaa ctg cccacc 921 Ala Ser Arg Ser Pro Ser Ala Ser Pro Pro Arg Trp Glu Leu Pro Thr120 125 130 aag cag tca ctt ggt ttt ttc aaa atg tac cca tagctactgtttaccgacct 974 Lys Gln Ser Leu Gly Phe Phe Lys Met Tyr Pro 135 140tggggcaatg taacttggtt ttgtcctccc ttcatgtgta cctttaatgt cagcctgaac 1034tccctactta tttacaactt ttctgacaaa accggggggc aatacacagc tctcatgcac 1094tccggacctg cttccctctt tcagctcttt aagccaacga cttgtgtcac caaggtggag 1154gacccgccgt atgccaacga cccggcctcg cctgtgtggc gcccactgct ttttgccttc 1214gtcctctgca ccggctgcgc ggtgttgtta accgccttcg gtccatcgat tctatccggt 1274acccgaaagc ttatctcagc ccgcttttgg agtcccgagc cctataccac cctccactaa 1334cagtcccccc atggagccag acggagttca tgccgagcag cagtttatcc tcaatcagat 1394ttcctgcgcc aacactgccc tccagcgtca aagggaggaa ctagcttccc ttgtcatgtt 1454gcatgcctgt aagcgtggcc tcttttgtcc agtcaaaact tacaagctca gcctcaacgc 1514ctcggccagc gagcacagcc tgcactttga aaaaagtccc tcccgattca ccctggtcaa 1574cactcacgcc ggagcttctg tgcgagtggc cctacaccac cagggagctt ccggcagcat 1634ccgctgttcc tgttcccacg ccgagtgcct ccccgtcctc ctcaagaccc tctgtgcctt 1694taacttttta gattagctga aagcaaatat aaaatggtgt gcttaccgta attctgtttt 1754gacttgtgtg cttgatttct ccccctgcgc cgtaatccag tgcccctctt caaaactctc 1814gtaccctatg cgattcgcat aggcatattt tctaaaagct ctgaagtcaa catcactctc 1874aaacacttct ccgttgtagg ttactttcat ctacagataa agtcatccac cggttaacat 1934catgaagaga agtgtgcccc aggactttaa tcttgtgtat ccgtacaagg ctaagaggcc 1994caacatcatg ccgccctttt ttgaccgcaa tggctttgtt gaaaaccaag aagccacgct 2054agccatgctt gtggaaaagc cgctcacgtt cgacaaggaa ggtgcgctga ccctgggcgt 2114cggacgcggc atccgcatta accccgcggg gcttctggag acaaacgacc tcgcgtccgc 2174tgtcttccca ccgctggcct ccgatgaggc cggcaacgtc acgctcaaca tgtctgacgg 2234gctatatact aaggacaaca agctagctgt caaagtaggt cccgggctgt ccctcgactc 2294caataatgct ctccaggtcc acacaggcga cgggctcacg gtaaccgatg acaaggtgtc 2354tctaaatacc caagctcccc tctcgaccac cagcgcgggc ctctccctac ttctgggtcc 2414cagcctccac ttaggtgagg aggaacgact aacagtaaac accggagcgg gcctccaaat 2474tagcaataac gctctggccg taaaagtagg ttcaggtatc accgtagatg ctcaaaacca 2534gctcgctgca tccctggggg acggtctaga aagcagagat aataaaactg tcgttaaggc 2594tgggcccgga cttacaataa ctaatcaagc tcttactgtt gctaccggga acggccttca 2654ggtcaacccg gaagggcaac tgcagctaaa cattactgcc ggtcagggcc tcaactttgc 2714aaacaacagc ctcgccgtgg agctgggctc gggcctgcat tttccccctg gccaaaacca 2774agtaagcctt tatcccggag atggaataga catccgagat aatagggtga ctgtgcccgc 2834tgggccaggc ctgagaatgc tcaaccacca acttgccgta gcttccggag acggtttaga 2894agtccacagc gacaccctcc ggttaaagct ctcccacggc ctgacatttg aaaatggcgc 2954cgtacgagca aaactaggac caggacttgg cacagacgac tctggtcggt ccgtggttcg 3014cacaggtcga ggacttagag ttgcaaacgg ccaagtccag atcttcagcg gaagaggcac 3074cgccatcggc actgatagca gcctcactct caacatccgg gcgcccctac aattttctgg 3134acccgccttg actgctagtt tgcaaggcag tggtccgatt acttacaaca gcaacaatgg 3194cactttcggt ctctctatag gccccggaat gtgggtagac caaaacagac ttcaggtaaa 3254cccaggcgct ggtttagtct tccaaggaaa caaccttgtc ccaaaccttg cggatccgct 3314ggctatttcc gacagcaaaa ttagtctcag tctcggtccc ggcctgaccc aagcttccaa 3374cgccctgact ttaagtttag gaaacgggct tgaattctcc aatcaagccg ttgctataaa 3434agcgggccgg ggcttacgct ttgagtcttc ctcacaagct ttagagagca gcctcacagt 3494cggaaatggc ttaacgctta ccgatactgt gatccgcccc aacctagggg acggcctaga 3554ggtcagagac aataaaatca ttgttaagct gggcgcgaat cttcgttttg aaaacggagc 3614cgtaaccgcc ggcaccgtta acccttctgc gcccgaggca ccaccaactc tcactgcaga 3674accacccctc cgagcctcca actcccatct tcaactgtcc ctatcggagg gcttggttgt 3734gcataacaac gcccttgctc tccaactggg agacggcatg gaagtaaatc agcacggact 3794tactttaaga gtaggctcgg gtttgcaaat gcgtgacggc attttaacag ttacacccag 3854cggcactcct attgagccca gactgactgc cccactgact cagacagaga atggaatcgg 3914gctcgctctc ggcgccggct tggaattaga cgagagcgcg ctccaagtaa aagttgggcc 3974cggcatgcgc ctgaaccctg tagaaaagta tgtaaccctg ctcctgggtc ctggccttag 4034ttttgggcag ccggccaaca ggacaaatta tgatgtgcgc gtttctgtgg agccccccat 4094ggttttcgga cagcgtggtc agctcacatt tttagtgggt cacggactac acattcaaaa 4154ttccaaactt cagctcaatt tgggacaagg cctcagaact gaccccgtca ccaaccagct 4214ggaagtgccc ctcggtcaag gtttggaaat tgcagacgaa tcccaggtta gggttaaatt 4274gggcgatggc ctgcagtttg attcacaagc tcgcatcact accgctccta acatggtcac 4334tgaaactctg tggaccggaa caggcagtaa tgctaatgtt acatggcggg gctacactgc 4394ccccggcagc aaactctttt tgagtctcac tcggttcagc actggtctag ttttaggaaa 4454catgactatt gacagcaatg catcctttgg gcaatacatt aacgcgggac acgaacagat 4514cgaatgcttt atattgttgg acaatcaggg taacctaaaa gaaggatcta acttgcaagg 4574cacttgggaa gtgaagaaca acccctctgc ttccaaagct gcttttttgc cttccaccgc 4634cctatacccc atcctcaacg aaagccgagg gagtcttcct ggaaaaaatc ttgtgggcat 4694gcaagccata ctgggaggcg ggggcacttg cactgtgata gccaccctca atggcagacg 4754cagcaacaac tatcccgcgg gccagtccat aattttcgtg tggcaagaat tcaacaccat 4814agcccgccaa cctctgaacc actctacact tactttttct tactggactt aaataagttg 4874gaaataaaga gttaaactga atgtttaagt gcaacagact tttattggtt ttggctcaca 4934acaaattaca acagcataga caagtcatac cggtcaaaca acacaggctc tcgaaaacgg 4994gctaaccgct ccaagaatct gtcacgcaga cgagcaagtc ctaaatgttt tttcactctc 5054ttcggggcca agttcagcat gtatcggatt ttctgcttac accttt 5100 20 142 PRTBovine adenovirus type 3 20 Phe Met Leu Gly Pro Leu Ala Ser Met Leu GlnGly Pro Gly Leu Ser 1 5 10 15 Leu Thr Arg Leu Met Phe Val Thr Met GluAla Ser Gln Ile Thr Thr 20 25 30 Pro Pro Arg Phe Cys Gly Trp Leu Glu ArgPro Met Ala Pro Gly Ser 35 40 45 Leu Phe Phe Ser Val Thr Thr Ala Pro GlnLeu Gln Pro Pro Gly Ser 50 55 60 Ser Arg Thr Leu Leu Thr Thr Thr Ala AlaLeu Trp Cys Pro Ser Ile 65 70 75 80 Thr Ser Ser Thr Thr His Ser Leu SerSer Ala Ala His Thr Gly Thr 85 90 95 Thr Ser Val Leu Ser Leu Pro Ala AsnLys Leu Thr Ser Leu Pro Val 100 105 110 Thr Ser Pro Ala Ser Arg Ser ProSer Ala Ser Pro Pro Arg Trp Glu 115 120 125 Leu Pro Thr Lys Gln Ser LeuGly Phe Phe Lys Met Tyr Pro 130 135 140 21 5100 DNA Bovine adenovirustype 3 CDS (1246)..(1707) 21 cctcatcaaa caacccgtgg tgggcaccac ccacgtggaaatgcctcgca acgaagtcct 60 agaacaacat ctgacctcac atggcgctca aatcgcgggcggaggcgctg cgggcgatta 120 ctttaaaagc cccacttcag ctcgaaccct tatcccgctcaccgcctcct gcttaagacc 180 agatggagtc tttcaactag gaggaggctc gcgttcatctttcaaccccc tgcaaacaga 240 ttttgccttc cacgccctgc cctccagacc gcgccacgggggcataggat ccaggcagtt 300 tgtagaggaa tttgtgcccg ccgtctacct caacccctactcgggaccgc cggactctta 360 tccggaccag tttatacgcc actacaacgt gtacagcaactctgtgagcg gttatagctg 420 agattgtaag actctcctat ctgtctctgt gctgcttttccgcttcaagc cccacaagca 480 tgaaggggtt tctgctcatc ttcagcctgc ttgtgcattgtcccctaatt catgttggga 540 ccattagctt ctatgctgca aggcccgggt ctgagcctaacgcgacttat gtttgtgact 600 atggaagcga gtcagattac aaccccacca cggttctgtggttggctcga gagaccgatg 660 gctcctggat ctctgttctt ttccgtcaca acggctcctcaactgcagcc cccggggtcg 720 tcgcgcactt tactgaccac aacagcagca ttgtggtgccccagtattac ctcctcaaca 780 actcactctc taagctctgc tgctcatacc ggcacaacgagcgttctcag tttacctgca 840 aacaagctga cgtccctacc tgtcacgagc ccggcaagccgctcaccctc cgcgtctccc 900 ccgcgctggg aactgcccac caagcagtca cttggttttttcaaaatgta cccatagcta 960 ctgtttaccg accttggggc aatgtaactt ggttttgtcctcccttcatg tgtaccttta 1020 atgtcagcct gaactcccta cttatttaca acttttctgacaaaaccggg gggcaataca 1080 cagctctcat gcactccgga cctgcttccc tctttcagctctttaagcca acgacttgtg 1140 tcaccaaggt ggaggacccg ccgtatgcca acgacccggcctcgcctgtg tggcgcccac 1200 tgctttttgc cttcgtcctc tgcaccggct gcgcggtgttgttaa ccg cct tcg gtc 1257 Pro Pro Ser Val 1 cat cga ttc tat ccg gta cccgaa agc tta tct cag ccc gct ttt gga 1305 His Arg Phe Tyr Pro Val Pro GluSer Leu Ser Gln Pro Ala Phe Gly 5 10 15 20 gtc ccg agc cct ata cca ccctcc act aac agt ccc ccc atg gag cca 1353 Val Pro Ser Pro Ile Pro Pro SerThr Asn Ser Pro Pro Met Glu Pro 25 30 35 gac gga gtt cat gcc gag cag cagttt atc ctc aat cag att tcc tgc 1401 Asp Gly Val His Ala Glu Gln Gln PheIle Leu Asn Gln Ile Ser Cys 40 45 50 gcc aac act gcc ctc cag cgt caa agggag gaa cta gct tcc ctt gtc 1449 Ala Asn Thr Ala Leu Gln Arg Gln Arg GluGlu Leu Ala Ser Leu Val 55 60 65 atg ttg cat gcc tgt aag cgt ggc ctc ttttgt cca gtc aaa act tac 1497 Met Leu His Ala Cys Lys Arg Gly Leu Phe CysPro Val Lys Thr Tyr 70 75 80 aag ctc agc ctc aac gcc tcg gcc agc gag cacagc ctg cac ttt gaa 1545 Lys Leu Ser Leu Asn Ala Ser Ala Ser Glu His SerLeu His Phe Glu 85 90 95 100 aaa agt ccc tcc cga ttc acc ctg gtc aac actcac gcc gga gct tct 1593 Lys Ser Pro Ser Arg Phe Thr Leu Val Asn Thr HisAla Gly Ala Ser 105 110 115 gtg cga gtg gcc cta cac cac cag gga gct tccggc agc atc cgc tgt 1641 Val Arg Val Ala Leu His His Gln Gly Ala Ser GlySer Ile Arg Cys 120 125 130 tcc tgt tcc cac gcc gag tgc ctc ccc gtc ctcctc aag acc ctc tgt 1689 Ser Cys Ser His Ala Glu Cys Leu Pro Val Leu LeuLys Thr Leu Cys 135 140 145 gcc ttt aac ttt tta gat tagctgaaagcaaatataaa atggtgtgct 1737 Ala Phe Asn Phe Leu Asp 150 taccgtaattctgttttgac ttgtgtgctt gatttctccc cctgcgccgt aatccagtgc 1797 ccctcttcaaaactctcgta ccctatgcga ttcgcatagg catattttct aaaagctctg 1857 aagtcaacatcactctcaaa cacttctccg ttgtaggtta ctttcatcta cagataaagt 1917 catccaccggttaacatcat gaagagaagt gtgccccagg actttaatct tgtgtatccg 1977 tacaaggctaagaggcccaa catcatgccg cccttttttg accgcaatgg ctttgttgaa 2037 aaccaagaagccacgctagc catgcttgtg gaaaagccgc tcacgttcga caaggaaggt 2097 gcgctgaccctgggcgtcgg acgcggcatc cgcattaacc ccgcggggct tctggagaca 2157 aacgacctcgcgtccgctgt cttcccaccg ctggcctccg atgaggccgg caacgtcacg 2217 ctcaacatgtctgacgggct atatactaag gacaacaagc tagctgtcaa agtaggtccc 2277 gggctgtccctcgactccaa taatgctctc caggtccaca caggcgacgg gctcacggta 2337 accgatgacaaggtgtctct aaatacccaa gctcccctct cgaccaccag cgcgggcctc 2397 tccctacttctgggtcccag cctccactta ggtgaggagg aacgactaac agtaaacacc 2457 ggagcgggcctccaaattag caataacgct ctggccgtaa aagtaggttc aggtatcacc 2517 gtagatgctcaaaaccagct cgctgcatcc ctgggggacg gtctagaaag cagagataat 2577 aaaactgtcgttaaggctgg gcccggactt acaataacta atcaagctct tactgttgct 2637 accgggaacggccttcaggt caacccggaa gggcaactgc agctaaacat tactgccggt 2697 cagggcctcaactttgcaaa caacagcctc gccgtggagc tgggctcggg cctgcatttt 2757 ccccctggccaaaaccaagt aagcctttat cccggagatg gaatagacat ccgagataat 2817 agggtgactgtgcccgctgg gccaggcctg agaatgctca accaccaact tgccgtagct 2877 tccggagacggtttagaagt ccacagcgac accctccggt taaagctctc ccacggcctg 2937 acatttgaaaatggcgccgt acgagcaaaa ctaggaccag gacttggcac agacgactct 2997 ggtcggtccgtggttcgcac aggtcgagga cttagagttg caaacggcca agtccagatc 3057 ttcagcggaagaggcaccgc catcggcact gatagcagcc tcactctcaa catccgggcg 3117 cccctacaattttctggacc cgccttgact gctagtttgc aaggcagtgg tccgattact 3177 tacaacagcaacaatggcac tttcggtctc tctataggcc ccggaatgtg ggtagaccaa 3237 aacagacttcaggtaaaccc aggcgctggt ttagtcttcc aaggaaacaa ccttgtccca 3297 aaccttgcggatccgctggc tatttccgac agcaaaatta gtctcagtct cggtcccggc 3357 ctgacccaagcttccaacgc cctgacttta agtttaggaa acgggcttga attctccaat 3417 caagccgttgctataaaagc gggccggggc ttacgctttg agtcttcctc acaagcttta 3477 gagagcagcctcacagtcgg aaatggctta acgcttaccg atactgtgat ccgccccaac 3537 ctaggggacggcctagaggt cagagacaat aaaatcattg ttaagctggg cgcgaatctt 3597 cgttttgaaaacggagccgt aaccgccggc accgttaacc cttctgcgcc cgaggcacca 3657 ccaactctcactgcagaacc acccctccga gcctccaact cccatcttca actgtcccta 3717 tcggagggcttggttgtgca taacaacgcc cttgctctcc aactgggaga cggcatggaa 3777 gtaaatcagcacggacttac tttaagagta ggctcgggtt tgcaaatgcg tgacggcatt 3837 ttaacagttacacccagcgg cactcctatt gagcccagac tgactgcccc actgactcag 3897 acagagaatggaatcgggct cgctctcggc gccggcttgg aattagacga gagcgcgctc 3957 caagtaaaagttgggcccgg catgcgcctg aaccctgtag aaaagtatgt aaccctgctc 4017 ctgggtcctggccttagttt tgggcagccg gccaacagga caaattatga tgtgcgcgtt 4077 tctgtggagccccccatggt tttcggacag cgtggtcagc tcacattttt agtgggtcac 4137 ggactacacattcaaaattc caaacttcag ctcaatttgg gacaaggcct cagaactgac 4197 cccgtcaccaaccagctgga agtgcccctc ggtcaaggtt tggaaattgc agacgaatcc 4257 caggttagggttaaattggg cgatggcctg cagtttgatt cacaagctcg catcactacc 4317 gctcctaacatggtcactga aactctgtgg accggaacag gcagtaatgc taatgttaca 4377 tggcggggctacactgcccc cggcagcaaa ctctttttga gtctcactcg gttcagcact 4437 ggtctagttttaggaaacat gactattgac agcaatgcat cctttgggca atacattaac 4497 gcgggacacgaacagatcga atgctttata ttgttggaca atcagggtaa cctaaaagaa 4557 ggatctaacttgcaaggcac ttgggaagtg aagaacaacc cctctgcttc caaagctgct 4617 tttttgccttccaccgccct ataccccatc ctcaacgaaa gccgagggag tcttcctgga 4677 aaaaatcttgtgggcatgca agccatactg ggaggcgggg gcacttgcac tgtgatagcc 4737 accctcaatggcagacgcag caacaactat cccgcgggcc agtccataat tttcgtgtgg 4797 caagaattcaacaccatagc ccgccaacct ctgaaccact ctacacttac tttttcttac 4857 tggacttaaataagttggaa ataaagagtt aaactgaatg tttaagtgca acagactttt 4917 attggttttggctcacaaca aattacaaca gcatagacaa gtcataccgg tcaaacaaca 4977 caggctctcgaaaacgggct aaccgctcca agaatctgtc acgcagacga gcaagtccta 5037 aatgttttttcactctcttc ggggccaagt tcagcatgta tcggattttc tgcttacacc 5097 ttt 5100 22154 PRT Bovine adenovirus type 3 22 Pro Pro Ser Val His Arg Phe Tyr ProVal Pro Glu Ser Leu Ser Gln 1 5 10 15 Pro Ala Phe Gly Val Pro Ser ProIle Pro Pro Ser Thr Asn Ser Pro 20 25 30 Pro Met Glu Pro Asp Gly Val HisAla Glu Gln Gln Phe Ile Leu Asn 35 40 45 Gln Ile Ser Cys Ala Asn Thr AlaLeu Gln Arg Gln Arg Glu Glu Leu 50 55 60 Ala Ser Leu Val Met Leu His AlaCys Lys Arg Gly Leu Phe Cys Pro 65 70 75 80 Val Lys Thr Tyr Lys Leu SerLeu Asn Ala Ser Ala Ser Glu His Ser 85 90 95 Leu His Phe Glu Lys Ser ProSer Arg Phe Thr Leu Val Asn Thr His 100 105 110 Ala Gly Ala Ser Val ArgVal Ala Leu His His Gln Gly Ala Ser Gly 115 120 125 Ser Ile Arg Cys SerCys Ser His Ala Glu Cys Leu Pro Val Leu Leu 130 135 140 Lys Thr Leu CysAla Phe Asn Phe Leu Asp 145 150 23 5100 DNA Bovine adenovirus type 3 CDS(1439)..(1702) 23 cctcatcaaa caacccgtgg tgggcaccac ccacgtggaa atgcctcgcaacgaagtcct 60 agaacaacat ctgacctcac atggcgctca aatcgcgggc ggaggcgctgcgggcgatta 120 ctttaaaagc cccacttcag ctcgaaccct tatcccgctc accgcctcctgcttaagacc 180 agatggagtc tttcaactag gaggaggctc gcgttcatct ttcaaccccctgcaaacaga 240 ttttgccttc cacgccctgc cctccagacc gcgccacggg ggcataggatccaggcagtt 300 tgtagaggaa tttgtgcccg ccgtctacct caacccctac tcgggaccgccggactctta 360 tccggaccag tttatacgcc actacaacgt gtacagcaac tctgtgagcggttatagctg 420 agattgtaag actctcctat ctgtctctgt gctgcttttc cgcttcaagccccacaagca 480 tgaaggggtt tctgctcatc ttcagcctgc ttgtgcattg tcccctaattcatgttggga 540 ccattagctt ctatgctgca aggcccgggt ctgagcctaa cgcgacttatgtttgtgact 600 atggaagcga gtcagattac aaccccacca cggttctgtg gttggctcgagagaccgatg 660 gctcctggat ctctgttctt ttccgtcaca acggctcctc aactgcagcccccggggtcg 720 tcgcgcactt tactgaccac aacagcagca ttgtggtgcc ccagtattacctcctcaaca 780 actcactctc taagctctgc tgctcatacc ggcacaacga gcgttctcagtttacctgca 840 aacaagctga cgtccctacc tgtcacgagc ccggcaagcc gctcaccctccgcgtctccc 900 ccgcgctggg aactgcccac caagcagtca cttggttttt tcaaaatgtacccatagcta 960 ctgtttaccg accttggggc aatgtaactt ggttttgtcc tcccttcatgtgtaccttta 1020 atgtcagcct gaactcccta cttatttaca acttttctga caaaaccggggggcaataca 1080 cagctctcat gcactccgga cctgcttccc tctttcagct ctttaagccaacgacttgtg 1140 tcaccaaggt ggaggacccg ccgtatgcca acgacccggc ctcgcctgtgtggcgcccac 1200 tgctttttgc cttcgtcctc tgcaccggct gcgcggtgtt gttaaccgccttcggtccat 1260 cgattctatc cggtacccga aagcttatct cagcccgctt ttggagtcccgagccctata 1320 ccaccctcca ctaacagtcc ccccatggag ccagacggag ttcatgccgagcagcagttt 1380 atcctcaatc agatttcctg cgccaacact gccctccagc gtcaaagggaggaactag 1438 ctt ccc ttg tca tgt tgc atg cct gta agc gtg gcc tct tttgtc cag 1486 Leu Pro Leu Ser Cys Cys Met Pro Val Ser Val Ala Ser Phe ValGln 1 5 10 15 tca aaa ctt aca agc tca gcc tca acg cct cgg cca gcg agcaca gcc 1534 Ser Lys Leu Thr Ser Ser Ala Ser Thr Pro Arg Pro Ala Ser ThrAla 20 25 30 tgc act ttg aaa aaa gtc cct ccc gat tca ccc tgg tca aca ctcacg 1582 Cys Thr Leu Lys Lys Val Pro Pro Asp Ser Pro Trp Ser Thr Leu Thr35 40 45 ccg gag ctt ctg tgc gag tgg ccc tac acc acc agg gag ctt ccg gca1630 Pro Glu Leu Leu Cys Glu Trp Pro Tyr Thr Thr Arg Glu Leu Pro Ala 5055 60 gca tcc gct gtt cct gtt ccc acg ccg agt gcc tcc ccg tcc tcc tca1678 Ala Ser Ala Val Pro Val Pro Thr Pro Ser Ala Ser Pro Ser Ser Ser 6570 75 80 aga ccc tct gtg cct tta act ttt tagattagct gaaagcaaatataaaatggt 1732 Arg Pro Ser Val Pro Leu Thr Phe 85 gtgcttaccg taattctgttttgacttgtg tgcttgattt ctccccctgc gccgtaatcc 1792 agtgcccctc ttcaaaactctcgtacccta tgcgattcgc ataggcatat tttctaaaag 1852 ctctgaagtc aacatcactctcaaacactt ctccgttgta ggttactttc atctacagat 1912 aaagtcatcc accggttaacatcatgaaga gaagtgtgcc ccaggacttt aatcttgtgt 1972 atccgtacaa ggctaagaggcccaacatca tgccgccctt ttttgaccgc aatggctttg 2032 ttgaaaacca agaagccacgctagccatgc ttgtggaaaa gccgctcacg ttcgacaagg 2092 aaggtgcgct gaccctgggcgtcggacgcg gcatccgcat taaccccgcg gggcttctgg 2152 agacaaacga cctcgcgtccgctgtcttcc caccgctggc ctccgatgag gccggcaacg 2212 tcacgctcaa catgtctgacgggctatata ctaaggacaa caagctagct gtcaaagtag 2272 gtcccgggct gtccctcgactccaataatg ctctccaggt ccacacaggc gacgggctca 2332 cggtaaccga tgacaaggtgtctctaaata cccaagctcc cctctcgacc accagcgcgg 2392 gcctctccct acttctgggtcccagcctcc acttaggtga ggaggaacga ctaacagtaa 2452 acaccggagc gggcctccaaattagcaata acgctctggc cgtaaaagta ggttcaggta 2512 tcaccgtaga tgctcaaaaccagctcgctg catccctggg ggacggtcta gaaagcagag 2572 ataataaaac tgtcgttaaggctgggcccg gacttacaat aactaatcaa gctcttactg 2632 ttgctaccgg gaacggccttcaggtcaacc cggaagggca actgcagcta aacattactg 2692 ccggtcaggg cctcaactttgcaaacaaca gcctcgccgt ggagctgggc tcgggcctgc 2752 attttccccc tggccaaaaccaagtaagcc tttatcccgg agatggaata gacatccgag 2812 ataatagggt gactgtgcccgctgggccag gcctgagaat gctcaaccac caacttgccg 2872 tagcttccgg agacggtttagaagtccaca gcgacaccct ccggttaaag ctctcccacg 2932 gcctgacatt tgaaaatggcgccgtacgag caaaactagg accaggactt ggcacagacg 2992 actctggtcg gtccgtggttcgcacaggtc gaggacttag agttgcaaac ggccaagtcc 3052 agatcttcag cggaagaggcaccgccatcg gcactgatag cagcctcact ctcaacatcc 3112 gggcgcccct acaattttctggacccgcct tgactgctag tttgcaaggc agtggtccga 3172 ttacttacaa cagcaacaatggcactttcg gtctctctat aggccccgga atgtgggtag 3232 accaaaacag acttcaggtaaacccaggcg ctggtttagt cttccaagga aacaaccttg 3292 tcccaaacct tgcggatccgctggctattt ccgacagcaa aattagtctc agtctcggtc 3352 ccggcctgac ccaagcttccaacgccctga ctttaagttt aggaaacggg cttgaattct 3412 ccaatcaagc cgttgctataaaagcgggcc ggggcttacg ctttgagtct tcctcacaag 3472 ctttagagag cagcctcacagtcggaaatg gcttaacgct taccgatact gtgatccgcc 3532 ccaacctagg ggacggcctagaggtcagag acaataaaat cattgttaag ctgggcgcga 3592 atcttcgttt tgaaaacggagccgtaaccg ccggcaccgt taacccttct gcgcccgagg 3652 caccaccaac tctcactgcagaaccacccc tccgagcctc caactcccat cttcaactgt 3712 ccctatcgga gggcttggttgtgcataaca acgcccttgc tctccaactg ggagacggca 3772 tggaagtaaa tcagcacggacttactttaa gagtaggctc gggtttgcaa atgcgtgacg 3832 gcattttaac agttacacccagcggcactc ctattgagcc cagactgact gccccactga 3892 ctcagacaga gaatggaatcgggctcgctc tcggcgccgg cttggaatta gacgagagcg 3952 cgctccaagt aaaagttgggcccggcatgc gcctgaaccc tgtagaaaag tatgtaaccc 4012 tgctcctggg tcctggccttagttttgggc agccggccaa caggacaaat tatgatgtgc 4072 gcgtttctgt ggagccccccatggttttcg gacagcgtgg tcagctcaca tttttagtgg 4132 gtcacggact acacattcaaaattccaaac ttcagctcaa tttgggacaa ggcctcagaa 4192 ctgaccccgt caccaaccagctggaagtgc ccctcggtca aggtttggaa attgcagacg 4252 aatcccaggt tagggttaaattgggcgatg gcctgcagtt tgattcacaa gctcgcatca 4312 ctaccgctcc taacatggtcactgaaactc tgtggaccgg aacaggcagt aatgctaatg 4372 ttacatggcg gggctacactgcccccggca gcaaactctt tttgagtctc actcggttca 4432 gcactggtct agttttaggaaacatgacta ttgacagcaa tgcatccttt gggcaataca 4492 ttaacgcggg acacgaacagatcgaatgct ttatattgtt ggacaatcag ggtaacctaa 4552 aagaaggatc taacttgcaaggcacttggg aagtgaagaa caacccctct gcttccaaag 4612 ctgctttttt gccttccaccgccctatacc ccatcctcaa cgaaagccga gggagtcttc 4672 ctggaaaaaa tcttgtgggcatgcaagcca tactgggagg cgggggcact tgcactgtga 4732 tagccaccct caatggcagacgcagcaaca actatcccgc gggccagtcc ataattttcg 4792 tgtggcaaga attcaacaccatagcccgcc aacctctgaa ccactctaca cttacttttt 4852 cttactggac ttaaataagttggaaataaa gagttaaact gaatgtttaa gtgcaacaga 4912 cttttattgg ttttggctcacaacaaatta caacagcata gacaagtcat accggtcaaa 4972 caacacaggc tctcgaaaacgggctaaccg ctccaagaat ctgtcacgca gacgagcaag 5032 tcctaaatgt tttttcactctcttcggggc caagttcagc atgtatcgga ttttctgctt 5092 acaccttt 5100 24 88 PRTBovine adenovirus type 3 24 Leu Pro Leu Ser Cys Cys Met Pro Val Ser ValAla Ser Phe Val Gln 1 5 10 15 Ser Lys Leu Thr Ser Ser Ala Ser Thr ProArg Pro Ala Ser Thr Ala 20 25 30 Cys Thr Leu Lys Lys Val Pro Pro Asp SerPro Trp Ser Thr Leu Thr 35 40 45 Pro Glu Leu Leu Cys Glu Trp Pro Tyr ThrThr Arg Glu Leu Pro Ala 50 55 60 Ala Ser Ala Val Pro Val Pro Thr Pro SerAla Ser Pro Ser Ser Ser 65 70 75 80 Arg Pro Ser Val Pro Leu Thr Phe 8525 5100 DNA Bovine adenovirus type 3 CDS (1915)..(4863) 25 cctcatcaaacaacccgtgg tgggcaccac ccacgtggaa atgcctcgca acgaagtcct 60 agaacaacatctgacctcac atggcgctca aatcgcgggc ggaggcgctg cgggcgatta 120 ctttaaaagccccacttcag ctcgaaccct tatcccgctc accgcctcct gcttaagacc 180 agatggagtctttcaactag gaggaggctc gcgttcatct ttcaaccccc tgcaaacaga 240 ttttgccttccacgccctgc cctccagacc gcgccacggg ggcataggat ccaggcagtt 300 tgtagaggaatttgtgcccg ccgtctacct caacccctac tcgggaccgc cggactctta 360 tccggaccagtttatacgcc actacaacgt gtacagcaac tctgtgagcg gttatagctg 420 agattgtaagactctcctat ctgtctctgt gctgcttttc cgcttcaagc cccacaagca 480 tgaaggggtttctgctcatc ttcagcctgc ttgtgcattg tcccctaatt catgttggga 540 ccattagcttctatgctgca aggcccgggt ctgagcctaa cgcgacttat gtttgtgact 600 atggaagcgagtcagattac aaccccacca cggttctgtg gttggctcga gagaccgatg 660 gctcctggatctctgttctt ttccgtcaca acggctcctc aactgcagcc cccggggtcg 720 tcgcgcactttactgaccac aacagcagca ttgtggtgcc ccagtattac ctcctcaaca 780 actcactctctaagctctgc tgctcatacc ggcacaacga gcgttctcag tttacctgca 840 aacaagctgacgtccctacc tgtcacgagc ccggcaagcc gctcaccctc cgcgtctccc 900 ccgcgctgggaactgcccac caagcagtca cttggttttt tcaaaatgta cccatagcta 960 ctgtttaccgaccttggggc aatgtaactt ggttttgtcc tcccttcatg tgtaccttta 1020 atgtcagcctgaactcccta cttatttaca acttttctga caaaaccggg gggcaataca 1080 cagctctcatgcactccgga cctgcttccc tctttcagct ctttaagcca acgacttgtg 1140 tcaccaaggtggaggacccg ccgtatgcca acgacccggc ctcgcctgtg tggcgcccac 1200 tgctttttgccttcgtcctc tgcaccggct gcgcggtgtt gttaaccgcc ttcggtccat 1260 cgattctatccggtacccga aagcttatct cagcccgctt ttggagtccc gagccctata 1320 ccaccctccactaacagtcc ccccatggag ccagacggag ttcatgccga gcagcagttt 1380 atcctcaatcagatttcctg cgccaacact gccctccagc gtcaaaggga ggaactagct 1440 tcccttgtcatgttgcatgc ctgtaagcgt ggcctctttt gtccagtcaa aacttacaag 1500 ctcagcctcaacgcctcggc cagcgagcac agcctgcact ttgaaaaaag tccctcccga 1560 ttcaccctggtcaacactca cgccggagct tctgtgcgag tggccctaca ccaccaggga 1620 gcttccggcagcatccgctg ttcctgttcc cacgccgagt gcctccccgt cctcctcaag 1680 accctctgtgcctttaactt tttagattag ctgaaagcaa atataaaatg gtgtgcttac 1740 cgtaattctgttttgacttg tgtgcttgat ttctccccct gcgccgtaat ccagtgcccc 1800 tcttcaaaactctcgtaccc tatgcgattc gcataggcat attttctaaa agctctgaag 1860 tcaacatcactctcaaacac ttctccgttg taggttactt tcatctacag ataa agt 1917 Ser 1 cat ccaccg gtt aac atc atg aag aga agt gtg ccc cag gac ttt aat 1965 His Pro ProVal Asn Ile Met Lys Arg Ser Val Pro Gln Asp Phe Asn 5 10 15 ctt gtg tatccg tac aag gct aag agg ccc aac atc atg ccg ccc ttt 2013 Leu Val Tyr ProTyr Lys Ala Lys Arg Pro Asn Ile Met Pro Pro Phe 20 25 30 ttt gac cgc aatggc ttt gtt gaa aac caa gaa gcc acg cta gcc atg 2061 Phe Asp Arg Asn GlyPhe Val Glu Asn Gln Glu Ala Thr Leu Ala Met 35 40 45 ctt gtg gaa aag ccgctc acg ttc gac aag gaa ggt gcg ctg acc ctg 2109 Leu Val Glu Lys Pro LeuThr Phe Asp Lys Glu Gly Ala Leu Thr Leu 50 55 60 65 ggc gtc gga cgc ggcatc cgc att aac ccc gcg ggg ctt ctg gag aca 2157 Gly Val Gly Arg Gly IleArg Ile Asn Pro Ala Gly Leu Leu Glu Thr 70 75 80 aac gac ctc gcg tcc gctgtc ttc cca ccg ctg gcc tcc gat gag gcc 2205 Asn Asp Leu Ala Ser Ala ValPhe Pro Pro Leu Ala Ser Asp Glu Ala 85 90 95 ggc aac gtc acg ctc aac atgtct gac ggg cta tat act aag gac aac 2253 Gly Asn Val Thr Leu Asn Met SerAsp Gly Leu Tyr Thr Lys Asp Asn 100 105 110 aag cta gct gtc aaa gta ggtccc ggg ctg tcc ctc gac tcc aat aat 2301 Lys Leu Ala Val Lys Val Gly ProGly Leu Ser Leu Asp Ser Asn Asn 115 120 125 gct ctc cag gtc cac aca ggcgac ggg ctc acg gta acc gat gac aag 2349 Ala Leu Gln Val His Thr Gly AspGly Leu Thr Val Thr Asp Asp Lys 130 135 140 145 gtg tct cta aat acc caagct ccc ctc tcg acc acc agc gcg ggc ctc 2397 Val Ser Leu Asn Thr Gln AlaPro Leu Ser Thr Thr Ser Ala Gly Leu 150 155 160 tcc cta ctt ctg ggt cccagc ctc cac tta ggt gag gag gaa cga cta 2445 Ser Leu Leu Leu Gly Pro SerLeu His Leu Gly Glu Glu Glu Arg Leu 165 170 175 aca gta aac acc gga gcgggc ctc caa att agc aat aac gct ctg gcc 2493 Thr Val Asn Thr Gly Ala GlyLeu Gln Ile Ser Asn Asn Ala Leu Ala 180 185 190 gta aaa gta ggt tca ggtatc acc gta gat gct caa aac cag ctc gct 2541 Val Lys Val Gly Ser Gly IleThr Val Asp Ala Gln Asn Gln Leu Ala 195 200 205 gca tcc ctg ggg gac ggtcta gaa agc aga gat aat aaa act gtc gtt 2589 Ala Ser Leu Gly Asp Gly LeuGlu Ser Arg Asp Asn Lys Thr Val Val 210 215 220 225 aag gct ggg ccc ggactt aca ata act aat caa gct ctt act gtt gct 2637 Lys Ala Gly Pro Gly LeuThr Ile Thr Asn Gln Ala Leu Thr Val Ala 230 235 240 acc ggg aac ggc cttcag gtc aac ccg gaa ggg caa ctg cag cta aac 2685 Thr Gly Asn Gly Leu GlnVal Asn Pro Glu Gly Gln Leu Gln Leu Asn 245 250 255 att act gcc ggt cagggc ctc aac ttt gca aac aac agc ctc gcc gtg 2733 Ile Thr Ala Gly Gln GlyLeu Asn Phe Ala Asn Asn Ser Leu Ala Val 260 265 270 gag ctg ggc tcg ggcctg cat ttt ccc cct ggc caa aac caa gta agc 2781 Glu Leu Gly Ser Gly LeuHis Phe Pro Pro Gly Gln Asn Gln Val Ser 275 280 285 ctt tat ccc gga gatgga ata gac atc cga gat aat agg gtg act gtg 2829 Leu Tyr Pro Gly Asp GlyIle Asp Ile Arg Asp Asn Arg Val Thr Val 290 295 300 305 ccc gct ggg ccaggc ctg aga atg ctc aac cac caa ctt gcc gta gct 2877 Pro Ala Gly Pro GlyLeu Arg Met Leu Asn His Gln Leu Ala Val Ala 310 315 320 tcc gga gac ggttta gaa gtc cac agc gac acc ctc cgg tta aag ctc 2925 Ser Gly Asp Gly LeuGlu Val His Ser Asp Thr Leu Arg Leu Lys Leu 325 330 335 tcc cac ggc ctgaca ttt gaa aat ggc gcc gta cga gca aaa cta gga 2973 Ser His Gly Leu ThrPhe Glu Asn Gly Ala Val Arg Ala Lys Leu Gly 340 345 350 cca gga ctt ggcaca gac gac tct ggt cgg tcc gtg gtt cgc aca ggt 3021 Pro Gly Leu Gly ThrAsp Asp Ser Gly Arg Ser Val Val Arg Thr Gly 355 360 365 cga gga ctt agagtt gca aac ggc caa gtc cag atc ttc agc gga aga 3069 Arg Gly Leu Arg ValAla Asn Gly Gln Val Gln Ile Phe Ser Gly Arg 370 375 380 385 ggc acc gccatc ggc act gat agc agc ctc act ctc aac atc cgg gcg 3117 Gly Thr Ala IleGly Thr Asp Ser Ser Leu Thr Leu Asn Ile Arg Ala 390 395 400 ccc cta caattt tct gga ccc gcc ttg act gct agt ttg caa ggc agt 3165 Pro Leu Gln PheSer Gly Pro Ala Leu Thr Ala Ser Leu Gln Gly Ser 405 410 415 ggt ccg attact tac aac agc aac aat ggc act ttc ggt ctc tct ata 3213 Gly Pro Ile ThrTyr Asn Ser Asn Asn Gly Thr Phe Gly Leu Ser Ile 420 425 430 ggc ccc ggaatg tgg gta gac caa aac aga ctt cag gta aac cca ggc 3261 Gly Pro Gly MetTrp Val Asp Gln Asn Arg Leu Gln Val Asn Pro Gly 435 440 445 gct ggt ttagtc ttc caa gga aac aac ctt gtc cca aac ctt gcg gat 3309 Ala Gly Leu ValPhe Gln Gly Asn Asn Leu Val Pro Asn Leu Ala Asp 450 455 460 465 ccg ctggct att tcc gac agc aaa att agt ctc agt ctc ggt ccc ggc 3357 Pro Leu AlaIle Ser Asp Ser Lys Ile Ser Leu Ser Leu Gly Pro Gly 470 475 480 ctg acccaa gct tcc aac gcc ctg act tta agt tta gga aac ggg ctt 3405 Leu Thr GlnAla Ser Asn Ala Leu Thr Leu Ser Leu Gly Asn Gly Leu 485 490 495 gaa ttctcc aat caa gcc gtt gct ata aaa gcg ggc cgg ggc tta cgc 3453 Glu Phe SerAsn Gln Ala Val Ala Ile Lys Ala Gly Arg Gly Leu Arg 500 505 510 ttt gagtct tcc tca caa gct tta gag agc agc ctc aca gtc gga aat 3501 Phe Glu SerSer Ser Gln Ala Leu Glu Ser Ser Leu Thr Val Gly Asn 515 520 525 ggc ttaacg ctt acc gat act gtg atc cgc ccc aac cta ggg gac ggc 3549 Gly Leu ThrLeu Thr Asp Thr Val Ile Arg Pro Asn Leu Gly Asp Gly 530 535 540 545 ctagag gtc aga gac aat aaa atc att gtt aag ctg ggc gcg aat ctt 3597 Leu GluVal Arg Asp Asn Lys Ile Ile Val Lys Leu Gly Ala Asn Leu 550 555 560 cgtttt gaa aac gga gcc gta acc gcc ggc acc gtt aac cct tct gcg 3645 Arg PheGlu Asn Gly Ala Val Thr Ala Gly Thr Val Asn Pro Ser Ala 565 570 575 cccgag gca cca cca act ctc act gca gaa cca ccc ctc cga gcc tcc 3693 Pro GluAla Pro Pro Thr Leu Thr Ala Glu Pro Pro Leu Arg Ala Ser 580 585 590 aactcc cat ctt caa ctg tcc cta tcg gag ggc ttg gtt gtg cat aac 3741 Asn SerHis Leu Gln Leu Ser Leu Ser Glu Gly Leu Val Val His Asn 595 600 605 aacgcc ctt gct ctc caa ctg gga gac ggc atg gaa gta aat cag cac 3789 Asn AlaLeu Ala Leu Gln Leu Gly Asp Gly Met Glu Val Asn Gln His 610 615 620 625gga ctt act tta aga gta ggc tcg ggt ttg caa atg cgt gac ggc att 3837 GlyLeu Thr Leu Arg Val Gly Ser Gly Leu Gln Met Arg Asp Gly Ile 630 635 640tta aca gtt aca ccc agc ggc act cct att gag ccc aga ctg act gcc 3885 LeuThr Val Thr Pro Ser Gly Thr Pro Ile Glu Pro Arg Leu Thr Ala 645 650 655cca ctg act cag aca gag aat gga atc ggg ctc gct ctc ggc gcc ggc 3933 ProLeu Thr Gln Thr Glu Asn Gly Ile Gly Leu Ala Leu Gly Ala Gly 660 665 670ttg gaa tta gac gag agc gcg ctc caa gta aaa gtt ggg ccc ggc atg 3981 LeuGlu Leu Asp Glu Ser Ala Leu Gln Val Lys Val Gly Pro Gly Met 675 680 685cgc ctg aac cct gta gaa aag tat gta acc ctg ctc ctg ggt cct ggc 4029 ArgLeu Asn Pro Val Glu Lys Tyr Val Thr Leu Leu Leu Gly Pro Gly 690 695 700705 ctt agt ttt ggg cag ccg gcc aac agg aca aat tat gat gtg cgc gtt 4077Leu Ser Phe Gly Gln Pro Ala Asn Arg Thr Asn Tyr Asp Val Arg Val 710 715720 tct gtg gag ccc ccc atg gtt ttc gga cag cgt ggt cag ctc aca ttt 4125Ser Val Glu Pro Pro Met Val Phe Gly Gln Arg Gly Gln Leu Thr Phe 725 730735 tta gtg ggt cac gga cta cac att caa aat tcc aaa ctt cag ctc aat 4173Leu Val Gly His Gly Leu His Ile Gln Asn Ser Lys Leu Gln Leu Asn 740 745750 ttg gga caa ggc ctc aga act gac ccc gtc acc aac cag ctg gaa gtg 4221Leu Gly Gln Gly Leu Arg Thr Asp Pro Val Thr Asn Gln Leu Glu Val 755 760765 ccc ctc ggt caa ggt ttg gaa att gca gac gaa tcc cag gtt agg gtt 4269Pro Leu Gly Gln Gly Leu Glu Ile Ala Asp Glu Ser Gln Val Arg Val 770 775780 785 aaa ttg ggc gat ggc ctg cag ttt gat tca caa gct cgc atc act acc4317 Lys Leu Gly Asp Gly Leu Gln Phe Asp Ser Gln Ala Arg Ile Thr Thr 790795 800 gct cct aac atg gtc act gaa act ctg tgg acc gga aca ggc agt aat4365 Ala Pro Asn Met Val Thr Glu Thr Leu Trp Thr Gly Thr Gly Ser Asn 805810 815 gct aat gtt aca tgg cgg ggc tac act gcc ccc ggc agc aaa ctc ttt4413 Ala Asn Val Thr Trp Arg Gly Tyr Thr Ala Pro Gly Ser Lys Leu Phe 820825 830 ttg agt ctc act cgg ttc agc act ggt cta gtt tta gga aac atg act4461 Leu Ser Leu Thr Arg Phe Ser Thr Gly Leu Val Leu Gly Asn Met Thr 835840 845 att gac agc aat gca tcc ttt ggg caa tac att aac gcg gga cac gaa4509 Ile Asp Ser Asn Ala Ser Phe Gly Gln Tyr Ile Asn Ala Gly His Glu 850855 860 865 cag atc gaa tgc ttt ata ttg ttg gac aat cag ggt aac cta aaagaa 4557 Gln Ile Glu Cys Phe Ile Leu Leu Asp Asn Gln Gly Asn Leu Lys Glu870 875 880 gga tct aac ttg caa ggc act tgg gaa gtg aag aac aac ccc tctgct 4605 Gly Ser Asn Leu Gln Gly Thr Trp Glu Val Lys Asn Asn Pro Ser Ala885 890 895 tcc aaa gct gct ttt ttg cct tcc acc gcc cta tac ccc atc ctcaac 4653 Ser Lys Ala Ala Phe Leu Pro Ser Thr Ala Leu Tyr Pro Ile Leu Asn900 905 910 gaa agc cga ggg agt ctt cct gga aaa aat ctt gtg ggc atg caagcc 4701 Glu Ser Arg Gly Ser Leu Pro Gly Lys Asn Leu Val Gly Met Gln Ala915 920 925 ata ctg gga ggc ggg ggc act tgc act gtg ata gcc acc ctc aatggc 4749 Ile Leu Gly Gly Gly Gly Thr Cys Thr Val Ile Ala Thr Leu Asn Gly930 935 940 945 aga cgc agc aac aac tat ccc gcg ggc cag tcc ata att ttcgtg tgg 4797 Arg Arg Ser Asn Asn Tyr Pro Ala Gly Gln Ser Ile Ile Phe ValTrp 950 955 960 caa gaa ttc aac acc ata gcc cgc caa cct ctg aac cac tctaca ctt 4845 Gln Glu Phe Asn Thr Ile Ala Arg Gln Pro Leu Asn His Ser ThrLeu 965 970 975 act ttt tct tac tgg act taaataagtt ggaaataaag agttaaactg4893 Thr Phe Ser Tyr Trp Thr 980 aatgtttaag tgcaacagac ttttattggttttggctcac aacaaattac aacagcatag 4953 acaagtcata ccggtcaaac aacacaggctctcgaaaacg ggctaaccgc tccaagaatc 5013 tgtcacgcag acgagcaagt cctaaatgttttttcactct cttcggggcc aagttcagca 5073 tgtatcggat tttctgctta caccttt 510026 983 PRT Bovine adenovirus type 3 26 Ser His Pro Pro Val Asn Ile MetLys Arg Ser Val Pro Gln Asp Phe 1 5 10 15 Asn Leu Val Tyr Pro Tyr LysAla Lys Arg Pro Asn Ile Met Pro Pro 20 25 30 Phe Phe Asp Arg Asn Gly PheVal Glu Asn Gln Glu Ala Thr Leu Ala 35 40 45 Met Leu Val Glu Lys Pro LeuThr Phe Asp Lys Glu Gly Ala Leu Thr 50 55 60 Leu Gly Val Gly Arg Gly IleArg Ile Asn Pro Ala Gly Leu Leu Glu 65 70 75 80 Thr Asn Asp Leu Ala SerAla Val Phe Pro Pro Leu Ala Ser Asp Glu 85 90 95 Ala Gly Asn Val Thr LeuAsn Met Ser Asp Gly Leu Tyr Thr Lys Asp 100 105 110 Asn Lys Leu Ala ValLys Val Gly Pro Gly Leu Ser Leu Asp Ser Asn 115 120 125 Asn Ala Leu GlnVal His Thr Gly Asp Gly Leu Thr Val Thr Asp Asp 130 135 140 Lys Val SerLeu Asn Thr Gln Ala Pro Leu Ser Thr Thr Ser Ala Gly 145 150 155 160 LeuSer Leu Leu Leu Gly Pro Ser Leu His Leu Gly Glu Glu Glu Arg 165 170 175Leu Thr Val Asn Thr Gly Ala Gly Leu Gln Ile Ser Asn Asn Ala Leu 180 185190 Ala Val Lys Val Gly Ser Gly Ile Thr Val Asp Ala Gln Asn Gln Leu 195200 205 Ala Ala Ser Leu Gly Asp Gly Leu Glu Ser Arg Asp Asn Lys Thr Val210 215 220 Val Lys Ala Gly Pro Gly Leu Thr Ile Thr Asn Gln Ala Leu ThrVal 225 230 235 240 Ala Thr Gly Asn Gly Leu Gln Val Asn Pro Glu Gly GlnLeu Gln Leu 245 250 255 Asn Ile Thr Ala Gly Gln Gly Leu Asn Phe Ala AsnAsn Ser Leu Ala 260 265 270 Val Glu Leu Gly Ser Gly Leu His Phe Pro ProGly Gln Asn Gln Val 275 280 285 Ser Leu Tyr Pro Gly Asp Gly Ile Asp IleArg Asp Asn Arg Val Thr 290 295 300 Val Pro Ala Gly Pro Gly Leu Arg MetLeu Asn His Gln Leu Ala Val 305 310 315 320 Ala Ser Gly Asp Gly Leu GluVal His Ser Asp Thr Leu Arg Leu Lys 325 330 335 Leu Ser His Gly Leu ThrPhe Glu Asn Gly Ala Val Arg Ala Lys Leu 340 345 350 Gly Pro Gly Leu GlyThr Asp Asp Ser Gly Arg Ser Val Val Arg Thr 355 360 365 Gly Arg Gly LeuArg Val Ala Asn Gly Gln Val Gln Ile Phe Ser Gly 370 375 380 Arg Gly ThrAla Ile Gly Thr Asp Ser Ser Leu Thr Leu Asn Ile Arg 385 390 395 400 AlaPro Leu Gln Phe Ser Gly Pro Ala Leu Thr Ala Ser Leu Gln Gly 405 410 415Ser Gly Pro Ile Thr Tyr Asn Ser Asn Asn Gly Thr Phe Gly Leu Ser 420 425430 Ile Gly Pro Gly Met Trp Val Asp Gln Asn Arg Leu Gln Val Asn Pro 435440 445 Gly Ala Gly Leu Val Phe Gln Gly Asn Asn Leu Val Pro Asn Leu Ala450 455 460 Asp Pro Leu Ala Ile Ser Asp Ser Lys Ile Ser Leu Ser Leu GlyPro 465 470 475 480 Gly Leu Thr Gln Ala Ser Asn Ala Leu Thr Leu Ser LeuGly Asn Gly 485 490 495 Leu Glu Phe Ser Asn Gln Ala Val Ala Ile Lys AlaGly Arg Gly Leu 500 505 510 Arg Phe Glu Ser Ser Ser Gln Ala Leu Glu SerSer Leu Thr Val Gly 515 520 525 Asn Gly Leu Thr Leu Thr Asp Thr Val IleArg Pro Asn Leu Gly Asp 530 535 540 Gly Leu Glu Val Arg Asp Asn Lys IleIle Val Lys Leu Gly Ala Asn 545 550 555 560 Leu Arg Phe Glu Asn Gly AlaVal Thr Ala Gly Thr Val Asn Pro Ser 565 570 575 Ala Pro Glu Ala Pro ProThr Leu Thr Ala Glu Pro Pro Leu Arg Ala 580 585 590 Ser Asn Ser His LeuGln Leu Ser Leu Ser Glu Gly Leu Val Val His 595 600 605 Asn Asn Ala LeuAla Leu Gln Leu Gly Asp Gly Met Glu Val Asn Gln 610 615 620 His Gly LeuThr Leu Arg Val Gly Ser Gly Leu Gln Met Arg Asp Gly 625 630 635 640 IleLeu Thr Val Thr Pro Ser Gly Thr Pro Ile Glu Pro Arg Leu Thr 645 650 655Ala Pro Leu Thr Gln Thr Glu Asn Gly Ile Gly Leu Ala Leu Gly Ala 660 665670 Gly Leu Glu Leu Asp Glu Ser Ala Leu Gln Val Lys Val Gly Pro Gly 675680 685 Met Arg Leu Asn Pro Val Glu Lys Tyr Val Thr Leu Leu Leu Gly Pro690 695 700 Gly Leu Ser Phe Gly Gln Pro Ala Asn Arg Thr Asn Tyr Asp ValArg 705 710 715 720 Val Ser Val Glu Pro Pro Met Val Phe Gly Gln Arg GlyGln Leu Thr 725 730 735 Phe Leu Val Gly His Gly Leu His Ile Gln Asn SerLys Leu Gln Leu 740 745 750 Asn Leu Gly Gln Gly Leu Arg Thr Asp Pro ValThr Asn Gln Leu Glu 755 760 765 Val Pro Leu Gly Gln Gly Leu Glu Ile AlaAsp Glu Ser Gln Val Arg 770 775 780 Val Lys Leu Gly Asp Gly Leu Gln PheAsp Ser Gln Ala Arg Ile Thr 785 790 795 800 Thr Ala Pro Asn Met Val ThrGlu Thr Leu Trp Thr Gly Thr Gly Ser 805 810 815 Asn Ala Asn Val Thr TrpArg Gly Tyr Thr Ala Pro Gly Ser Lys Leu 820 825 830 Phe Leu Ser Leu ThrArg Phe Ser Thr Gly Leu Val Leu Gly Asn Met 835 840 845 Thr Ile Asp SerAsn Ala Ser Phe Gly Gln Tyr Ile Asn Ala Gly His 850 855 860 Glu Gln IleGlu Cys Phe Ile Leu Leu Asp Asn Gln Gly Asn Leu Lys 865 870 875 880 GluGly Ser Asn Leu Gln Gly Thr Trp Glu Val Lys Asn Asn Pro Ser 885 890 895Ala Ser Lys Ala Ala Phe Leu Pro Ser Thr Ala Leu Tyr Pro Ile Leu 900 905910 Asn Glu Ser Arg Gly Ser Leu Pro Gly Lys Asn Leu Val Gly Met Gln 915920 925 Ala Ile Leu Gly Gly Gly Gly Thr Cys Thr Val Ile Ala Thr Leu Asn930 935 940 Gly Arg Arg Ser Asn Asn Tyr Pro Ala Gly Gln Ser Ile Ile PheVal 945 950 955 960 Trp Gln Glu Phe Asn Thr Ile Ala Arg Gln Pro Leu AsnHis Ser Thr 965 970 975 Leu Thr Phe Ser Tyr Trp Thr 980 27 227 PRT Humanadenovirus type 2 27 Met Ser Lys Glu Ile Pro Thr Pro Tyr Met Trp Ser TyrGln Pro Gln 1 5 10 15 Met Gly Leu Ala Ala Gly Ala Ala Gln Asp Tyr SerThr Arg Ile Asn 20 25 30 Tyr Met Ser Ala Gly Pro His Met Ile Ser Arg ValAsn Gly Ile Arg 35 40 45 Ala His Arg Asn Arg Ile Leu Leu Glu Gln Ala AlaIle Thr Thr Thr 50 55 60 Pro Arg Asn Asn Leu Asn Pro Arg Ser Trp Pro AlaAla Leu Val Tyr 65 70 75 80 Gln Glu Ser Pro Ala Pro Thr Thr Val Val LeuPro Arg Asp Ala Gln 85 90 95 Ala Glu Val Gln Met Thr Asn Ser Gly Ala GlnLeu Ala Gly Gly Phe 100 105 110 Arg His Arg Val Arg Ser Pro Gly Gln GlyIle Thr His Leu Lys Ile 115 120 125 Arg Gly Arg Gly Ile Gln Leu Asn AspGlu Ser Val Ser Ser Ser Leu 130 135 140 Gly Leu Arg Pro Asp Gly Thr PheGln Ile Gly Gly Ala Gly Arg Ser 145 150 155 160 Ser Phe Thr Pro Arg GlnAla Ile Leu Thr Leu Gln Thr Ser Ser Ser 165 170 175 Glu Pro Arg Ser GlyGly Ile Gly Thr Leu Gln Phe Ile Glu Glu Phe 180 185 190 Val Pro Ser ValTyr Phe Asn Pro Phe Ser Gly Pro Pro Gly His Tyr 195 200 205 Pro Asp GlnPhe Ile Pro Asn Phe Asp Ala Val Lys Asp Ser Ala Asp 210 215 220 Gly TyrAsp 225 28 128 PRT Human adenovirus type 5 28 Met Thr Asp Thr Leu AspLeu Glu Met Asp Gly Ile Ile Thr Glu Gln 1 5 10 15 Arg Leu Leu Glu ArgArg Arg Ala Ala Ala Glu Gln Gln Arg Met Asn 20 25 30 Gln Glu Leu Gln AspMet Val Asn Leu His Gln Cys Lys Arg Gly Ile 35 40 45 Phe Cys Leu Val LysGln Ala Lys Val Thr Tyr Asp Ser Asn Thr Thr 50 55 60 Gly His Arg Leu SerTyr Lys Leu Pro Thr Lys Arg Gln Lys Leu Val 65 70 75 80 Val Met Val GlyGlu Lys Pro Ile Thr Ile Thr Gln His Ser Val Glu 85 90 95 Thr Glu Gly CysIle His Ser Pro Cys Gln Gly Pro Glu Asp Leu Cys 100 105 110 Thr Leu IleLys Thr Leu Cys Gly Leu Lys Asp Leu Ile Pro Phe Asn 115 120 125 29 582PRT Human adenovirus type 2 29 Met Lys Arg Ala Arg Pro Ser Glu Asp ThrPhe Asn Pro Val Tyr Pro 1 5 10 15 Tyr Asp Thr Glu Thr Gly Pro Pro ThrVal Pro Phe Leu Thr Pro Pro 20 25 30 Phe Val Ser Pro Asn Gly Phe Gln GluSer Pro Pro Gly Val Leu Ser 35 40 45 Leu Arg Val Ser Glu Pro Leu Asp ThrSer His Gly Met Leu Ala Leu 50 55 60 Lys Met Gly Ser Gly Leu Thr Leu AspLys Ala Gly Asn Leu Thr Ser 65 70 75 80 Gln Asn Val Thr Thr Val Thr GlnPro Leu Lys Lys Thr Lys Ser Asn 85 90 95 Ile Ser Leu Asp Thr Ser Ala ProLeu Thr Ile Thr Ser Gly Ala Leu 100 105 110 Thr Val Ala Thr Thr Ala ProLeu Ile Val Thr Ser Gly Ala Leu Ser 115 120 125 Val Gln Ser Gln Ala ProLeu Thr Val Gln Asp Ser Lys Leu Ser Ile 130 135 140 Ala Thr Lys Gly ProIle Thr Val Ser Asp Gly Lys Leu Ala Leu Gln 145 150 155 160 Thr Ser AlaPro Leu Ser Gly Ser Asp Ser Asp Thr Leu Thr Val Thr 165 170 175 Ala SerPro Pro Leu Thr Thr Ala Thr Gly Ser Leu Gly Ile Asn Met 180 185 190 GluAsp Pro Ile Tyr Val Asn Asn Gly Lys Ile Gly Ile Lys Ile Ser 195 200 205Gly Pro Leu Gln Val Ala Gln Asn Ser Asp Thr Leu Thr Val Val Thr 210 215220 Gly Pro Gly Val Thr Val Glu Gln Asn Ser Leu Arg Thr Lys Val Ala 225230 235 240 Gly Ala Ile Gly Tyr Asp Ser Ser Asn Asn Met Glu Ile Lys ThrGly 245 250 255 Gly Gly Met Arg Ile Asn Asn Asn Leu Leu Ile Leu Asp ValAsp Tyr 260 265 270 Pro Phe Asp Ala Gln Thr Lys Leu Arg Leu Lys Leu GlyGln Gly Pro 275 280 285 Leu Tyr Ile Asn Ala Ser His Asn Leu Asp Ile AsnTyr Asn Arg Gly 290 295 300 Leu Tyr Leu Phe Asn Ala Ser Asn Asn Thr LysLys Leu Glu Val Ser 305 310 315 320 Ile Lys Lys Ser Ser Gly Leu Asn PheAsp Asn Thr Ala Ile Ala Ile 325 330 335 Asn Ala Gly Lys Gly Leu Glu PheAsp Thr Asn Thr Ser Glu Ser Pro 340 345 350 Asp Ile Asn Pro Ile Lys ThrLys Ile Gly Ser Gly Ile Asp Tyr Asn 355 360 365 Glu Asn Gly Ala Met IleThr Lys Leu Gly Ala Gly Leu Ser Phe Asp 370 375 380 Asn Ser Gly Ala IleThr Ile Gly Asn Lys Asn Asp Asp Lys Leu Thr 385 390 395 400 Leu Trp ThrThr Pro Asp Pro Ser Pro Asn Cys Arg Ile His Ser Asp 405 410 415 Asn AspCys Lys Phe Thr Leu Val Leu Thr Lys Cys Gly Ser Gln Val 420 425 430 LeuAla Thr Val Ala Ala Leu Ala Val Ser Gly Asp Leu Ser Ser Met 435 440 445Thr Gly Thr Val Ala Ser Val Ser Ile Phe Leu Arg Phe Asp Gln Asn 450 455460 Gly Val Leu Met Glu Asn Ser Ser Leu Lys Lys His Tyr Trp Asn Phe 465470 475 480 Arg Asn Gly Asn Ser Thr Asn Ala Asn Pro Tyr Thr Asn Ala ValGly 485 490 495 Phe Met Pro Asn Leu Leu Ala Tyr Pro Lys Thr Gln Ser GlnThr Ala 500 505 510 Lys Asn Asn Ile Val Ser Gln Val Tyr Leu His Gly AspLys Thr Lys 515 520 525 Pro Met Ile Leu Thr Ile Thr Leu Asn Gly Thr SerGlu Ser Thr Glu 530 535 540 Thr Ser Glu Val Ser Thr Tyr Ser Met Ser PheThr Trp Ser Trp Glu 545 550 555 560 Ser Gly Lys Tyr Thr Thr Glu Thr PheAla Thr Asn Ser Tyr Thr Phe 565 570 575 Ser Tyr Ile Ala Gln Glu 580 3021 PRT Artificial Modified-sites 2, 3, 5-17, 19-20 Xaa can be any aminoacid; consensus metal-binding sequence 30 Cys Xaa Xaa Cys Xaa Xaa XaaXaa Xaa Xaa Xaa Xaa Xaa Xaa Xaa Xaa 1 5 10 15 Xaa Cys Xaa Xaa Cys 20 317 PRT Bovine adenovirus type 3; human adenovirus type 5 Modified-site(4) Xaa can be any amino acid; region of homology 31 Gln Ser Ser Xaa SerThr Ser 1 5 32 27 PRT Bovine adenovirus type 3 32 Pro Leu Leu Phe AlaPhe Val Leu Cys Thr Gly Cys Ala Val Leu Leu 1 5 10 15 Thr Ala Phe GlyPro Ser Ile Leu Ser Gly Thr 20 25 33 57 PRT Bovine adenovirus type 3 33Glu Glu Val Thr Ser His Phe Phe Leu Asp Cys Pro Glu Asp Pro Ser 1 5 1015 Arg Glu Cys Ser Ser Cys Gly Phe His Gln Ala Gln Ser Gly Ile Pro 20 2530 Gly Ile Met Cys Ser Leu Cys Tyr Met Arg Gln Thr Tyr His Cys Ile 35 4045 Tyr Ser Pro Val Ser Glu Glu Glu Met 50 55 34 12 PRT Bovine adenovirustype 3 34 Val Asp Leu Glu Cys His Glu Val Leu Pro Pro Ser 1 5 10

What is claimed is:
 1. A recombinant mammalian cell of bovine originthat expresses a bovine adenovirus E1 gene product wherein said cell ispermissive for the replication of a bovine adenovirus vector having adeletion in part or all of the E1 gene region.
 2. The cell of claim 1comprising bovine adenovirus E1 gene sequences.
 3. The cell of claim 2wherein said E1 gene sequences are integrated in the genome of themammalian cell.
 4. The cell of claim 1 wherein said cell is infectedwith a recombinant bovine adenovirus vector, wherein said bovineadenovirus vector comprises a deletion in part or all of the bovine E1gene region.
 5. The cell of claim 4 wherein said bovine adenovirusvector further comprises a deletion in part or all of the E3 generegion.
 6. The cell of claim 4 wherein said adenovirus vector comprisesa heterologous nucleotide sequence esoding a foreign gene or a fragmentthereof.
 7. The cell of claim 6, wherein said heterologous nucleotidesequence is inserted in the E1 deleted gene region of said adenovirusvector.
 8. The cell of claim 7 wherein said heterologous nucleotidesequence inserted in the adenovinis vector encodes an antigen.
 9. Thecell of claim 7 wherein said heterologous nucleotide sequence isselected from the group consisting of growth factors and vaccineantigens.
 10. The cell of claim 5, comprising a heterologous nucleotidesequence inserted in said adenovirus vector at the site of the deletedE3 sequences.
 11. The cell of claim 1 wherein said mammalian celloriginates from bovine kidney.
 12. The cell of claim 1 wherein saidmammalian cell originates from fetal bovine kidney.
 13. A method forpropagating a recombinant bovine adenovirus genome comprising a deletionin part or all of the bovine E1 gene region comprising the step ofculturing a bovine adenovirus vector comprising a deletion in part orall of the bovine E1 gene region in a mammalian cell of bovine originthat expresses a bovine adenovirus E1 gene product, wherein saidmammalian cell is permissive for the replication of said bovineadenovirus vector.
 14. The method of claim 13 wherein said mammaliancell contains a genome that comprises bovine adenovirus E1 genesequences.
 15. The method of claim 14 wherein said E1 gene sequences areintegrated in the genome of the mammalian cell.
 16. The method of claim13 wherein said adenovirus vector further comprises a deletion in partor all of the E3 gene region.
 17. The method of claim 13 wherein saidbovine adenovirus vector comprises a heterologous nucleotide sequenceencoding a foreign gene or a fragment thereof.
 18. The method of claim17 wherein a heterologous nucleotide sequence is inserted in saidadenovirus vector at the site of the deleted E1 gene region.
 19. Themethod of claim 16 wherein said adenovirus vector further comprises aheterologous nucleotide sequence inserted in said adenovirus vector atthe site of deleted E3 gene region.
 20. A method for making arecombinant mammalian cell line of bovine origin that expresses a bovineadenovirus E1 gene product comprising the step of transforming asuitable mammalian cell with an expression cassette comprising part orall of the bovine E1 gene region, wherein said mammalian cell ispermissive for the replication of a bovine adenovirus vector having adeletion in part or all of the bovine E1 gene region.
 21. The method ofclaim 20 further comprising infecting said cell line with an adenovirusvector comprising a deletion in part or all of the bovine E1 generegion.
 22. The method of claim 21 wherein said adenovirus vectorfurther comprises a deletion in part or all of the E3 gene region. 23.The method of claim 21 wherein said adenovinms vector comprises aheterologous nucleotide sequence encoding a foreign gene or a fragmentthereof.
 24. The method of claim 23 wherein a heterologous nucleotidesequence is inserted in said adenovirus vector at the site of thedeleted E1 gene region.
 25. The method of claim 22 wherein saidadenovirus vector further comprises a heterologous nucleotide sequenceinserted in said adenovirus vector at the site of the deleted E3 generegion.
 26. The method of claim 20 wherein said cell originates frombovine kidney.
 27. The method of claim 23 wherein said cell originatesfrom fetal bovine kidney.
 28. The method of claim 23 wherein saidheterologous nucleotide sequence in said adenovirus vector encodes agrowth factor or a vaccine antigen.